Why is it important to play music? With Walter Blanding from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 

This is a great teacher a real educator. You can bet he changes young lives and they will carry his lessons far into the future.

Mr. Blanding dropping some serious knowledge on these young cats. Man I wish I had a teacher like Walter Blanding. You are one straight up teach.

This Is Amazing! (And why we need fully-funded music programs in every one of our public schools. It's more than worth any cost!)

Wonderful words that left a huge impact on me!

Thank you, Walter Blanding, for caring, sharing and teaching.

Where I wish my younger self to be!

I wish I had a Teacher like Him. After 15 years playing saxophone I still can not improvise

Profound words that are spot on!

i love it... great teacher,& musicians...

So much wisdom

Oh wow! What a great both teacher and player!

Wow, what inspirational words!!

Amazing Walter

Fantastic. Beautifully put. Thank you for sharing this

this is just so great. What a beautiful and profound talk. It would be very neat to add ENglish subtitles, because many people who are not native English speakers might have trouble to follow Mr Blanding's words. I would be happy to help, Danny!

Thanks for sharing!

Timeless and profound advice!

Fabulous ! Thank you so much for these inspiring words. I love you Walter Blanding

Great speech! Great motivation! Perfect !

He is awesome player

I Wish I had a teacher like that

Wise words, wise words.

That’s beautiful

All the cool teachers sit on the desk

Soooo encouraging, hey what's wrong with oatmeal!!! Lol!!!!

On it!!!

muito bom

What the hell 6 years later I see myself at the drums in the thumbnail of this video haha.

Do you mind if I take this video and post it on my channel for my students? I would really like to make czech subtitles for it. It´s great speech. Thank you

Heavy.

Does anyone have this in script form? :)

So eloquently put