Dallas Lost a True Great This Week With the Death of Dennis González.
“When we see the husk, the body of a living being, we are seeing the outward manifestation of an internal spirit,” he told OneFinalNote.com in April 2001.
He valued his students’ individuality and wanted their music to sound like them. It was one of several reasons why he created La Rondalla, an Oak Cliff-based music nonprofit that provides students access to musical instruments. “I believe that family is so important,” González said in the 2015 interview. “If the student has no involvement from his or her family in his or her life, I show that student affection and guidance and tell that person that I'm there whenever I'm needed, the same way I'm available to my own two sons. Sometimes what is needed is just a listening ear, and I'm there for that too.
Jazz legend Dennis González , who died on Tuesday, posing with musician and The Kessler's artistic director Jeff Liles and jazz artist Freddie Jones .“I lived as a child in a small town, where most of my neighbors were poor Hispanics, almost all Mexicans, who depended on the Catholic Church for their spiritual needs,” González said in a March 2010 Q&A with Clean Feed Records.
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