By Dan Warburton for Paris Transatlantic magazine:
Do you recall any memorable childhood musical experiences, early sound memories that marked you in some way?Read the rest here. Nate Wooley performed at Soundlab on 10/17/04 with Blue Collar; on 04/09/05 in duo format with Chris Forsythe; and again on 05/13/06 in a trio with Cor Fuhler, Nate Wooley and Newtown Armstrong.
There are two different kinds of sound experiences that shaped me growing up. The first was all the jazz I heard. Portland was a big jazz town – and still is to a certain degree – with a heavy emphasis on the hard bop tradition. For better or worse, all that bebop and hard bop and swing made its way into my trumpet playing. Listening to my dad play blues and jump R&B style stuff definitely had a huge impact on me early on, that feeling of the ecstatic. The other experience was all the silence that I grew up in. My hometown, Clatskanie, Oregon, had a population of 2000, but we weren't clumped together in any sort of organized manner. My family lived "in town" but there were no cars driving revving their engines at all hours, no cellphone conversations or loud televisions, no background noise whatsoever, except the wind or the rain. I've always been pretty obsessive about recording small details in my mind, things that I see or hear; I would concentrate on small sounds for hours when I was trying to fall asleep, trying to figure out how to recreate them or what their composition was. Listening to my grandmother hum tunelessly was something that affected me somehow, although I'd have a tough time pointing to its musical example. Those two types of sound experiences seem really disparate, but I think they are both pretty well represented in what I do now. At least to me they seem that way.
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