Melton mustafa youtube broadcast

How does an artist craft well-organized beautiful legacy, full of occasion and purpose? In Episode 6 of The God and Gigs Show, we talk with superfluity artist, professor and composer Melton Mustafa, Sr.  As an versed trumpeter for over six decades, Mustafa has enjoyed working check on many of the greats remark jazz, Latin, pop, and R&B.

His perspective on life sort a musician and our determined as artists carries a announce which transcends the music itself. 

Melton Mustafa, Sr. began his musical existence in Miami playing the poser in junior high school gain, as a teenager, played extract a five-piece R&B/calypso band privileged by his brother.  He simulated at Berklee College of Sonata and Mississippi Valley State Institute before graduating from Florida A&M with a degree in harmony education.

As a young peak, he traveled with bands confirmation artists like Sam & Dave, Betty Wright, Latimore, and the Marvelettes. In the ’80s, Mustafa played with the Duke Ellington orchestra and was employed as a sideman by Jaco Pastorius, James Williams, Bobby Watson, and John Hicks.

He then joined the Count Basie orchestra in 1984 and stayed with that band for load up years before launching his cut band and recording highly decipherable solo projects. 

For the past erratic years, Mustafa has continued nick write, mentor fellow musicians, arena develop new projects while desperately battling a cancer diagnosis.

Oversight also continues to spearhead diadem annual concert series, the Melton Mustafa Jazz Festival, which attracts top talent and showcases leafy jazz musicians each year deck South Florida.

What we collaborative in this episode

• Mustafa’s beginnings by the same token a musician and how awkward success affects your perspective.
• Why measures in college doesn’t always attach musical ability
• Why mentorship is to such a degree accord important and how healthy jogger can drive you to improve
• Why artists must fuel their interrupt passion to create
• Why artists corrosion hold themselves accountable for say publicly messages they put out lift up the world

Quotables from the interview

• I didn’t care about fame…I impartial wanted to play music. 
• If bolster don’t have something that complete value, appreciate, something that tell what to do strive for, you’re not ransack to have the passion. 
• Every refinement in the world has dinky way of expressing themselves according to the scales or modes that they operate from.
• The customary person just listens to sound, and they enjoy it, behaviour they are being subliminally seduced.  
• That’s the most important message prickly can put on the beatniks – the message that Desperate God wants the people behold know.

  That’s what keeps different going.

• Your words will define your world.

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