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• I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a…
• When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever…
• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as…
• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is…
• I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead…
• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
• I don't need much coaxing.
• I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I…
• I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I…
• It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have…

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