Eviatar Slivnik is a jazz drummer and composer, based in Brooklyn, NY.

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(00:00) Moving to New York to test yourself

(04:21) Early heroes and jazz influences

(08:37) Falling in love with jazz’s mind and soul

(12:54) Jazz as high-level conversation, not noise

(16:49) Why expertise matters before improvising

(20:58) Childhood development: bands, drive, priorities

(25:26) Arts high school in Tel Aviv and practicing

(29:44) Rejection from workshop sparks daily discipline

(34:10) Two-hour routine: humiliation, habits, results

(38:33) Dreaming bigger at Berklee and in NYC

(42:57) Jazz history: hardship, resilience, origins

(47:22) Paradoxes: street music, complex art form ...