Kenny Barron discusses his preferences in an instrument

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Kenny Barron discusses the inability to travel with a piano

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Kenny Barron talks about musical composition

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Q: “You really demand a lot of an instrument. It has to be able to react because your concept is very much a piano player’s concept…”

A: “Well, yeah, there are certain things that I require from a piano, a certain kind of sensitivity and touch, and a response to my touch which every piano obviously doesn't necessarily give.”