Adam Makowicz discusses the need for quakity equipment

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Adam Makowicz discusses his early training

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Adam Makowicz on being self taught

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Q; “Now, as a young musician what did you find you had to do differently to play jazz music? If your training had all been classical and very formal, when you discovered jazz what was it – a sense of freedom about it? What was it that attracted you?”

A: “Swing and sound attracted me. But really when I decided to turn to jazz and play that kind of music when I've heard Art Tatum. After Tatum I was really shocked and like, how do you call it, like something happened, boom! And you just didn't see before that something so beautiful, too beautiful, to, you know, you have to do it. It's a kind of feeling ... I didn't know why, but then I knew that I had to do it. There is no other way and that I decided, you know, like that. Just do it.”