There's no choice but to be fully present, trusting the sound of every note to guide him freely to the next. His musical vocabulary stretches fluently across genres to express the truth of each moment. For him, improvisation is a common language, used in conversation among musicians who are sharing time and space, and also in dialogue with the ancestors who first spoke the mother tongue. He wants to serve the music both by honoring and advancing it. See more of Classical Conversations Inc on Facebook.
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Tradition is central to Gerald's musicianship, as he told me in our conversation at Mezzrow, the intimate jazz club in New York's West Village, but so is innovation - the search for honest expression through inquiry and reinvention. Do you have a Memory Master in your home Ready to learn more about the National Memory Master Competition and how to enter. As his career took off, Gerald prioritized musical partnerships with his mentors, giants like Roy Hargrove and Charles Lloyd. Legacy was at the center of an early album called Brother To Brother, a collaboration with his dad and his uncle, the late saxophonist Jeff Clayton - an intimate tribute to family ties. He moved to New York, where he walked in the footprints of the icons, stepping into the deep bedrock of history and tradition. Studying at USC with the adventurous pianist and composer Billy Childs encouraged him to explore a wide range of musical lexicons while developing his own creative language. John took a hands-off approach to raising a gifted little musician, careful to let Gerald develop his own interests and ideas without the burden of familial expectations or assumptions.Įncounters with hip-hop, soul and rock at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts expanded Gerald's musical horizons. His dad, the revered bassist and musical multi-hyphenate John Clayton, remembers Gerald always singing as a child - duetting with the songs of birds, the jingle of the ice cream truck, responding to the music in everything.
Music was Gerald Clayton's first language.
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