Q&A with jazz saxophonist Gregory Tardy
CP: You started playing saxophone in Milwaukee. You were born in New Orleans. Where did you grow up?
GT: I kind of flipped around a lot of different places. I was born in New Orleans, and then my dad's job moved us around to different cities. We ended up in Milwaukee for a good 12 years. That's where I went to middle school and high school and where I did the bulk of my college. I was there for a long time. It's a complicated story.
CP: What did your father do?
GT: He worked for the American Can company.
CP: You've also lived in New York, St. Louis and now Knoxville. Have all those places left their mark on your music?
GT: Most definitely. When I lived in Milwaukee, the scene there was more of a bebop scene at the time. I don't know what it is now because I haven't been back in a while, but it was definitely bebop then. When I was in St. Louis and I played on that scene for a while, it was more blues, so I learned a lot of blues down there.
When I moved back to New Orleans as an adult, I played on the street a lot with the brass bands and in a lot of traditional groups. I did some work with The Neville Brothers and the true New Orleans funky type groups.
I feel that they've all influenced me, to a large degree. If there's any roundness to my playing, that's where it comes from. It's also given me different perspectives, different approaches, having played with different rhythm sections.
CP: Did that make it easy for you to insert yourself into different musical situations with other players?
GT: Yeah. I feel that it made it pretty easy.
CP: You started off on clarinet. How old were you?
GT: I started playing clarinet when I was about 9 years old.
CP: What drew you to it?
GT: (Laughs.) My brother and sisters were in their bands, and back then, I used to think about different friends they had. I just wanted to be around certain friends, so the clarinet seemed like a good instrument.
There was nothing majorly drawing me to that instrument. I liked the saxophone, too - it was shiny. (Laughs.)
CP: At what point did you start liking the clarinet on your own terms rather than because someone else played it?
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CP: Do you still play classical music or has it been shifted completely to the back burner? GT: I've gone through spurts. There was a 10-year period when I didn't play clarinet at all, and in the late '90s, I started playing it sporadically again.
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