Tomorrow night (Monday November 30) at 9pm, Close Enough for Jazz has been kind enough to let me air an interview I did with Darren Hanlon while he was in the state touring (it's a different edit from the other airing that I linked to). He's NOT a jazz artist, but he did study jazz, so in recognition of the fact that it's Close Enough for Jazz that's making the KVRX interview airing possible, the first excerpt of the interview transcription that I have is about Darren's jazz background.
Please tune in tomorrow!
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Darren Hanlon, on his jazz guitar education:
"The jazz thing, my parents kind of forced me to go to college to university to study jazz. Well, it was the only contemporary music course in Australia at the time that could lead to teaching, and at that stage I definitely wasn't writing songs. I was really young, I was, you know, 17 and 18. I didn't know what...I wanted to be a maths teacher, but they said "maybe you should try music." So they forced me to go to this college, and yeah. I managed to get in, which was a start. I couldn't play jazz. I still really couldn't play jazz when I finished it, but I could play enough to pass my exams and then I spent the last 10 years forgetting it all again. I love listening to jazz, and I think that's probably the best thing I've got out of going to college was an appreciation of how jazz is constructed, so now when I listen to jazz records, I know how it's played and what scales they're using, and where they're coming from, technically, theoretically."
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