Mary Lou Williams Rutgers Interview Block 938 (Q13126)

Very possible. I had a pupil here and she was playing Bach and I had to teach her how to memorize and how to really play it. In about 5 minutes I was playing 4 bars. You understand? You know what classical music is - something that somebody's written and you do exercises on it in your woodshed and play it. But jazz is difficult. You think what they've written and you have to play it then. So w ...