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Jan Hammer [1948-0]

Rank: 110
Musician

Jan Hammer is Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer. He first gained his most visible audience while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 1970s, as well as his film scores for television and film including "Miami Vice Theme" and "Crockett's Theme", from the popular 1980s program, Miami Vice.

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You never know what you find once you really get going.		101
The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.		102
Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.		103
Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.		104
The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.		105
It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?		106
It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.		107
I'm so far removed from live playing any more.		108
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.		109
I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.		110
The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.		111
I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.		112
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.		113

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