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I don't think anybody really super-consciously tries to develop a style to play.

~John Abercrombie

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I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.

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The way I evolved was playing straight-ahead jazz into playing more fusion-type stuff just because I was young enough to get into it. As I get older, I find myself coming back to where I kind of started.

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When we improvise freely - that is, without a structure - it tends to sound more like 20th century classical music, more like a classical ensemble improvising, as opposed to a free-jazz group, where you're more used to hearing saxophones honking.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 16th, 1944

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