I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

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The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

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I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

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I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

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But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

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I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

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Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

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So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

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I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

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I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

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