Thomas Tedesco

Thomas Tedesco: Don't Ever Be Afraid To Be Ascared

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2000

To me jazz is all about attitude. Jazz can be found in your walk or in the writing of Don Delillo or Jack Kerouac. If you can hear music in the snip snip of you barber’s scissors, you also know that jazz comes from many peculiar sources. How is it that Toots Thielmans’ harmonica and Jimmy Smith’ s B-3 Organ can swing? Or that Eric Dolphy spoke so beautifully from a woody bass clarinet? Attitude. Guitarist Thomas Tedesco shares his ...