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LL Interview in All About Jazz / Jazz and IOS
This interview was just published in All About Jazz. I used the opportunity to push the iOS platform.
I think I did okay.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/michael-a-levy-getting-into-the-feeling-of-music
Comments
That's a really good one. I am jealous of you having found a teacher like Connie. I had a few great teachers (Dick Grove being the main one) and had all my technical knowledge together by my early 20s, but I never had a teacher who connected me into music via feeling and spirit and mindfulness. I didn't even start to get to that part of it in a disciplined way until middle age. I missed out focusing on the best stuff when I was young, but better late than never.
That’s a pretty decent interview… it will probably bring a new batch of retired musician’s here to ask the important questions like:
What’s a wave file?
How can I connect a microphone to my phone since it doesn’t appear to have a port for anything?
I read I should start with a DAW and Cubasis seems to be made for the elderly. Is there anything for people with onset dementia?
When they get the basics down and they start putting out music like a balloon leaking helium after being pricked by a nasty comment like this one.
Congrats @LinearLineman: you did the work and deserve the recognition.
That was a great read. You have done an absolutely marvelous job of elevating the iOS platform. I'm so glad you found this forum and have continued to share your music and insights here.
Your encouragement has helped me more than I can express.
I really like Beethoven’s Edibles.
And it was a nice read!
Great article, Mike. It was thoroughly detailed in all aspects, such I appreciate ad so many interviews are cursory and truncated. Glad you're getting to show off all your hard work over these last few years. 😁👍
Nice!
Great interview Mike, lots to digest in there 🙏
Great read, very inspiring, lots of insights. Thanks!
Fantastic read, and inspiring. Especially to those of us who are finding our creative direction post retirement.
Great interview! Enjoyed reading it a lot especially how you think about improvisation.
Absolutely wonderful article Mike - highly inspiring 🙏
Great article @LinearLineman, thanks for sharing.
(Still doesn't explain how you can improvise fully fleshed-out compositions in one take.)
Nice to know more of your background and where you came from.
Also that you pointed out the fact that you don't need the best and could start with a low budget.
It's not the piano that make great music, but the one who plays it.
Very interesting interview that helps us understand (just a tiny bit) the LL mistery ! Thank you for sharing. You had this incredible and rare chance to meet at the right place and time the perfect teacher that changed your musical path. That's a beautiful story.
So good to know some of your history double L. Fascinating stuff.
Thanks also for promoting the platform.
I’m always fond of saying that I don’t require validation for what I do but still it’s nice for others to know.
Excellent interview! Lucid. Also It got me to listen to the Connie website.
I feel better, during reading I goes to play on air (on melodica), now finished to read articles….
This is breaking information for my learning/playing experience. Im shocked and inspired to learn more about chi and loosing muscles. Very important reading! Thank you.
I'm also very interested in this aspect @LinearLineman
Please give us a few pointers on this. I meditate, ocassionally do yoga etc, also walking meditation (which is amazing and very little practiced), but when I get on my guitar I know I'm using much more effort than needed, with the accompanying neck and shoulder stiffness you mentioned in your article.
Great interview @LinearLineman , nice that it had some depth unlike so many things these days.
Also nice that people of ‘our’ generation are portrayed as having some mental faculty.
If you watch the adverts on UK TV aimed at the over 55’s you would think we would struggle to grasp the concept of a knife and fork never mind MIDI Files and LFO’s.
@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr, indeed, I was very fortunate to find Connie. Without her I doubt I would have succeeded.
Thanks @McD. It’s interesting that the demographic here leans toward Methuselah.
@MadeofWax, thank you for the very meaningful praise. I'm glad I could shine some light of the light that was shared with me,
@Daveypoo, yes, there were no length restrictions placed on me and the interviewer didn’t edit. You can submit albums for review to All About Jazz. You might consider that.
Thanks for checking it out @Johnba @Krupa @raabje @bygjohn @auxmux. Much appreciated!
@pbelgium, if it helps, I can’t really explain it either. As Geoffrey Rush said in Shakespeare In Lovr: “It’s a mystery!”
@Identor, agreed. And we’re fortunate that the outsized value of electronic gear extends to keyboards. I created an iOS symphony on a $350 Casio.
Thank you @JanKun. Yes, Connie passed on a few years back. It was a very small window of opportunity. It was marvelous to be in love with her, unattainable as that was, but I know she loved me a lot, too. We were great friends.
Thanks @Ben. We really need validation to thrive. Connie was an expert in that. I'm glad I can pass a little on.
@Stochastically, please check out Lennie Tristano on YouTube. He was the real thing.
@szczyp, pls don’t hesitate to pm me if you have any questions. Melodica is a great tool. Horn and reed players are much more in touch with their breath than keyboard players… something we piano players often are not clued into. Connie had me sing with the great jazz players and vocalists. That was invaluable training,
@Gavinski well, tai chi is marvelous for all things non muscular. I think you’d enjoy it. I guess you could say it’s mobile yoga. Maybe the difference in not being a static exercise (tho postures are often held) makes a difference in relaxed playing. And, of course, breathing is key. So many unconsciously hold the breath while playing (I certainly did). Nothing worse for relaxation. PM me if you want to discuss further about this, but I think you already know what I’m talking about.
@GeoTony, well, we went from elderly to senior citizens a few decades ago. That feels pejorative now.
My youngest pal now is @CapnWillie. He uses Old Man. I can dig that. I like Old Jew, too. It’s real.
Thanks all, for your encouragement. Ikm glad I can contribute to this great space full of cool cats.
😂 I did literally laugh out loud at this, although it is actually tragic and I'm definitely not looking forward to getting treated the same way when I hit my 70s. Modern Western society is not a good place to be old, in many regards.
Yeah I really should have studied Tai Chi during my time in China, it's a beautiful thing
What an awesome in depth interview! Sounds like you had a wonderful teacher. Deep stuff. One line that especially rang my bell, “ ...everyone has the potential of an original musical voice.”. I believe that also.
+10000
@gavinski, never too late. I studied for five years starting around 1972 with an excellent teacher, Wolf Lowenthal, who was a senior student of Chen Man Ching… Chen was one of the originals to bring tai chi to the US. Here he is doing his own created short form….
Thanks @dav and @rs2000. Connie was a marvel.
Great. How can anyone make a living wage if everyone is an “artist”? Thankfully, no living teacher is around to spout such a liberating vision. Thankfully, Apple will have us all lushing buttons on prepackaged loops and samples and knowing we have no idea how music functions as a body of knowledge.
I mean to have a voice it’s useful to share a common vocabulary. Otherwise it the Tower of Babel… which I hear could throw a nice rave.
@McD, I know your tongue is in your cheek, but read @Svetlovska ’s AI thread to know where the real competition is coming from. In my parents’ day everyone played an instrument and they came together of an evening to play together. Those days are gone, but spreading the knowledge so average musicians can get a bit more out of it than sight reading or faking a piece of music… that’s worthwhile, IMHO.
Awesome stuff, can’t wait to read! Congrats on the interview, very cool.
Congratulations, this is so cool. A very interesting and inspiring read. Thank you for all your contributions here.
… or apostrophes.
[edit, this is meant as a kindly joke from a fellow old person 👍]