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If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

Jon Gordon

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Jon Gordon
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
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You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.
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[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.
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I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.
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Alan [Ferber] is a great trombonist and composer. I'm thankful that I got some associations like that through peers and former students. That's kind of what it is.
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Connection to the music and the history was very powerful to me. I think that's what I feel the most blessed about.
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