Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer
Jan Hammeris a Czech 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. He has continued to work as both a musical performer and producer, expanding to producing film later in his career...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth17 April 1948
passion gone spontaneity
The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
talking voice america
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.
leave means quotes together word
If you think about it, the word "composing" or to compose, means to put together. So, you have to know what to put together and what to leave out.
perform quotes
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?
happened
The band couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world but New York. That was the catalyst.
I'm so far removed from live playing any more.