Travel and diversity: spend a portion of your life away from music with world trav getting outdoors with hiking, canoeing, rock climbing get involved with difTerelt occupations. Study and know world history and world music.
Study the Humanities: art, literature, drama, particularly the roma sophy and religion. Classical music study and know the works of the romantic rneiodv harmonists - Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Prokofiev, Stravinskv R ° ^^^ Copland and the classical influenced ECM composers - Raloh Tn,^. Improvisation: if you can't play it, be able to write it. Study and know the works of the influential jazz composers- Ch r Ellington, Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, and Wayne Shorter.
Evolution of jazz styles: one should be able to write in all iazr ctvUc -, j i i r ii i -ii Know theory and nomenclature: composers use written means of co category is obvious. Once the composer has maste H ronment to skills, he has to acquire 'something co say.' Of course, this is true f k 1C musica* required instrumental skills seem to have precedence at this ooinr f^- i_ ' Ut t « ■■*■ *- i a concept of sound include the world and all it can teach.
