Will Allison
Will Allison
Will Allison is an American novelist and editor. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling book Long Drive Homeand What You Have Left...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 October 1968
CountryUnited States of America
years concerts nightclubs
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
I'm playin' the music I like.
daughter style age
I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.
night years able
I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.
jobs night play
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.
new-york jazz
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
dad player piano
My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.
humorous views tunes
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
years ideas want
I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
swings personality jazz-improvisation
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
teacher years piano
I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.
world
Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much
men world young
A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days
music hard-work ideas
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.