#14 Jazz, NFT as album cover and the benefits of challenges in life with JURE PUKL | Sound Mind
On this episode, my guest is Jure Pukl, a world-class saxophone player, improviser, and a truly brilliant musician. I am really fond of him and I really enjoy his sense of humour.
We also share a couple of similarities: we both come from our hometown, Velenje, and we both moved back to Slovenia after years of living abroad.
This episode is about jazz, improvisation, and he will share his hilarious story about his musical upbringing; you have to hear it to believe it. All the way to enjoying life as it is and embracing what it gives you.
He also used an NFT as artwork on one of his recent albums called Melt.
We will also discuss the experience and the importance when people/teachers doubt in you. It is not nice, of course, BUT! I realised I would not change a ‘not nice experience’ for anything, because it gave me a chance to grow stronger from it, and to realise what I really want and make that even more meaningful.
I think one of the problems today is that society is trying to protect and prevent people from ‘not nice’ experiences (parents trying to remove everything unpleasant in their life, or society with its close to paranoid political correctness). I believe we have to be challenged in order to train our mental resilience. I see it like training a sport, body, or craft as artists for that matter. (Of course, as long as it is not life-threatening.)
How can we ever get stronger or wiser if not through a set of challenges in life?
Jure is also a teacher at the Academy of Music in the Jazz department, which opened last year in Ljubljana for the first time in Slovenia!
I hope that you will enjoy the talk and that you get inspired by the topics that we discuss.
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Useful links:
https://www.instagram.com/jurepukl/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjscw-0pt5A&t=29s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omlqCC3_A3c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9lyTQAHXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZn8PLWTqUM&t=314s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyautBOnmcQ
https://jurepukl-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/melt
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