Comments on: Contact Info

By: lynn

lynn — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:49:37 +0000

Dear Kenny and Lorraine,
I have been thinking of you. I heard about your beautiful daughter’s accident. Now I’ve seen No Beginning, No End. Thank you so much for this incredible work. It provides so much to others and is so beautiful. I’m looking forward to the cd. Kenny, I also looked for your very early vinyl record “Bridge Street???’. Any in existence? I’d love to buy one.
I send you both all my love,
Lynn (dancer and certainly a blast from the past)

By: Raffaele Bizzoca

Raffaele Bizzoca — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:57:46 +0000

Hello there!!
I’d like to thank you for the wonderful “Effortless Mastery” you wrote so helpful in many aspects!!
Has the book being translated into Italian?
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Best wishes
lele

By: Andrea B.

Andrea B. — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:44:07 +0000

My husband is a clarinet/sax player – dixieland jazz. He discovered Effortless Mastery about 5 years ago and has studied it so diligently that the bindings fell apart and we replaced the first book twice more. Looking for a 4th copy, I was able to find him an edition with “ring bindings” that he has enjoyed for the past 2 years and though dog-eared….it looks like a keeper. Please make more of these available…we haven’t found these again. He has recommended and/or purchased this book for numerous musician friends. Each night he goes to sleep meditating to Kenny’s tapes. He tells everyone that Kenny Werner’s book has changed his way of looking at his craft, and that this new knowledge has increased his musicality by leaps and bounds. Not being a musician myself, I don’t totally understand it, but I can hear the new excitement in his performance and in his attitude about other aspects of his life and I can tell that it has helped him immensely.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:45:36 +0000

The joint research, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, and musician volunteers from the Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, sheds light on the creative improvisation that artists and non-artists use in everyday life, the investigators say.

It appears, they conclude, that jazz musicians create their unique improvised riffs by turning off inhibition and turning up creativity.

continue reading here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226213431.htm

By: Rene

Rene — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:31:55 +0000

dear Mr. Werner,
I am an amateur pianist playing in a jazz combo.
I would like to play your song Balloons. I love this song the way you play it. And I very much would like to study it and practice this song. The chords as you play them would be enough for me already, maybe the melody too ?
Thanks anyway !

By: Rene

Rene — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:49:07 +0000

dear Mr. Werner,
I am an amateur pianist playing in a jazz combo.
I am desperately looking for the “lead sheet” of your composition Balloons. I love this song the way you play it. And I very much would like to study it and practice this song. The chords as you play them would be enough for me already, maybe the melody too, but this I already figured out. Thanks in advance !

By: hans barfod

hans barfod — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:59:24 +0000

dear kenny -
i am doing a book with alex on his life as a drummer in more than 50 years – he has his birthday in mid september with a week celebration in copenhagen -
i want you to write 5 – 8 sentenses about you and alex for the book -
20 other jazzmusicians – mostly danes – are doing the same -
i hope you have time soon as the book is almost finished –
thank you -
hans barfod

By: Fred Jennes

Fred Jennes — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:08:36 +0000

Hi, Kenny–
As a former professional musician (drummer), who spent a brief period at Berklee and gave music up in frustration many years ago, and who has now taken up playing the electric bass, I have deeply appreciated your book, telewebinars, and video’s. They are paving my road back to my involvement with music.

I have taught t’ai chi for almost 20 years, and it finally dawned on me why I was drawn to it–doing t’ai chi is like playing in that wonderful state you have described. As a matter of fact t’ai chi practitioners are generally called “players.” At its best the t’ai chi form “un-spools” just the way a tune does when someone is truly at one with the music.

Keep up the good work, and many thanks for your inspiration!

Freddie J.

By: David Gleason

David Gleason — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:10:39 +0000

Kenny,
Thanks for your quick response. I look forward to setting up some lessons for this summer. I’m sure you know how these type of grants work. If you wouldn’t mind sending me an official sounding letter, nothing long, as an attachment or an email, stating your willingness to commit to giving me lessons and your fee it would help me to set this grant up. I could also forward them the email you sent me recently, but I’m having difficulty locating it in my inbox.
Thanks again, for being especially for being so approachable.

Dave

By: David Gleason

David Gleason — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:20:06 +0000

To Mr. Werner

My name is David Gleason. I am a jazz pianist and music teacher living in New York’s Capital Region. I am currently a finalist for a grant from the Surdna foundation which promotes teachers at arts high schools reconnecting with their artistic roots. As part of this grant project I am looking to take 3-5 lessons during June-August with an excellent jazz pianist. These lessons would be at your convenience and funded through the foundation. If this is something we can consider, please respond. I would be glad to provide a resume or recording if it helps. If this is not something that you would consider, could you please suggest a pianist that might be willing to provide this service, I’m looking for someone well rounded (trio, solo, ensemble, composer) with a notable contribution to jazz.

Thank You,

David Gleason