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Jazz Quotes by Count Basie
- I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and…
- If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
- I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A…
- I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not…
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