Simone Kopmajer - The audition

Hajo: Ok - Simone Kopmajer Concert at Klub.k - when? What date is it today? I studied with Sheila Jordan and Mark Murphy and one day I asked Sheela: do I have a chance as a jazz singer, or should I better continue studying to become a piano teacher, or a pianist. And she said: You are a true jazz singer, you are not a Pianist! And so I quit studying. Thats how it went. Big scandal at home. I then went to New York. All the great jazz musicians and clubs are really inspiring and great- but to live there for good? Thats not for me There is no right, there is no wrong, there is just "different". Each song ends differently And when you really think: now this is the best version Thats how we will always play it from now on but it doesnt work this way. It is always different. And that is the beauty of it- that's the real beauty Everybody listens to the other and then comes: Didadada Di daaa. And they wait until you breathe: Deiaaa and then they all join Fa tatata uh didi didi. I grew up in a small town in the mountains in Bad Aussee. And yes, I think when you grow up there, you do not appreciate it. But now after so many years in the city, in Graz and Vienna, I always go back there and visit my parents in the mountains more often. Non-musical sounds? The chirping of birds and the sound inside a train or an airoplane. sounds like prrrrrr. I love that - I would fall asleep immediately. The love of music and the wish to simply share it with other people. When I īm on stage I pay attention to them, perhaps they have really good idea or a riff, that we can play at the end. Then, we play it a while and I watch what the drummer is doing and then he simply directs us to the finale and in the end we are all together It does not always have to come from me. perhaps itīs even better if its done by someone else Can I say it like that? Is that answering the question? Hajo: Thank you! Simone: Thank you!