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When Jason Rebello answered positively to the email I have sent him as to how he thought interviewing himself – asking him a couple of things I had in mind, my joy was so big that I begun whistling a few songs on the way back home. Getting into my car and touching my iPod I distinctly remembered Sting’s song “never coming home” – Album Sacred Love.

The song was already playing and I was driving home happy though anxious trying to figure out what to ask Jason since my list was getting longer and longer. Jason’s Piano Solo had just begun.
I turned the engine off but not iPod. I closed my eyes, felt that tingle, hearing magical notes as a child.

Playing drums, guitar and singing for years as a young student in the school days, I have realized that what music has offered me over the years, the things I have loved with passion and persistence were all part of talented and great musicians without whom music will never have existed.

The way they think and compose their music – the way notes are being transformed into sounds – brings to us all that inner peace we need one way or the other and we search throughout our life via music.

Maybe this is the reason we offered them lavishly our love and respect.

Jason could not have been an exemption from this category aforementioned.

Entering home and opening my PC I brought in front of me all the things I have found over the years for Jason: Biography, Album History, Interviews, Video clips, whatever I have collected through my childhood for musicians like Jason I have admired and still do so. Going through them, I realized that many things about Jason Rebello where already available on the Internet. I begun isolating common questions and wondering what me and the rest of the world would like to get out of Jason – not things we already knew – when some of his words fell into my eyes – words during his period of Buddhism. Continue reading →