This is the realest shit I've ever heard.

Very impressed with Mike Wolff. He seemed very down to earth and just GETS it as far as what to do musically. Just love his lines of thinking about music and creating. Better to be a sloppy original than a polished copy. I've already learned a ton just watching his piano videos.

The BEST thing this guy says is from 26:45 to 28:10. If you are want to become a better band member, you this is THE KEY!!!

Michael Wolff is an excellent Jazz musician and a very good teacher. Thanks for posting this very insightful piece

An informative & educative masterclass. All the best to Mr Mike Wolff. A wonderful & genuine human being. Thanks for the posting. pcHux

All you young cats, listen up! This is a priceless master class from a guy who is cool, honest, funny and with a ton of insights into the art and business of music.

Mike Wolff is a great teacher !!!!

So many genres of music to play. It's hard to keep up with all of them. I am very diverse and felt like I could play anything. I still play everything and anything. I love to learn and teach. This is a good communicator with a friendly and easy demeanor. A real musician.

Fun fact: his sons were the stars of the Naked Brothers Band on Nickelodeon, does anyone remember that show? It was on when I was a kid in 2005

Thanks a lot for uploading! Really appreciated it :)

Great! Excelent lesson !!! Guilermo ( Salvador Brazil )

I agree 100%

I'm really jealous of a guy who got to play with Joe Farrell and Ronnie Cuber (two of my favorites). Mike doesn't mention Richard Beirach, but I thought I may have heard that influence in "Like Someone In Love". Thanks for making this masterclass available to us.

goldust advice!

Great interview, great cat!!!

0 dislikes as it should be

I've been searching for Toni DeGrati(DeGrate?) and the Astral Project... can't seem to find any videos or music. Anyone have links? Also: One movie he talks about "The Tic Code", and the other with Sigourney Weaver is "The Girl In the Park"

excellent

I heard Mike with Johnny Griffin years ago! No doubt a bad cat!

He is right about the hunger for knowledge and how the rich kids want it served on a plate. When knowledge was not so readily available you had to be dedicated to find it.ORIGINALITY comes by learning from mistakes and finding a new way. If you know everything and it's all been done before, why bother? Don't tell me that the note I heard and chose to play was wrong. We might come up with a new theory. Mike Wolff is OK.

Which book is he talkin about on 12:15 its a book about Herbie Hancock and the stuff that he played with Miles Davis?

love the way his pants are worn out where they touch the piano

Thanks!

"It's a little dry of a vibe"

This was great! I think I could hang out with this cat and just chat some shit, no doubt

21:12 - amazing

Mike Wolff' statement about Bill Evans is totally untrue. Bill Evans, by his own admission, WAS the guy who listened to a lot of different players, studied them and analysed their work. Therefore his background in Jazz was very solid. None of the great players was TRYING to come up with something original - they WERE original but they all just tried to play this music as well as they could.

Not even a minute into the video...yeah; I can relate to being thrown in the jungle in music path! This should be interesting!

Very wise

Mike Wolff's voice sounds real close to Kevin Spacey's.

22:10 wow

Name-Dropping 101... in case anybody wanted to know which course this is..

Not all school is bad? So Tony is going to teach med school?

Naked Brothers Band

37:00 He has tourettes? he seems to be quite good at masking it because i couldnt tell at all

sounds like being Jewish would be a major bonus for a jazz musician, that and being very rich haha, interesting talk.

who would pay to listen to this?

Tony Robbins is irritating