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- Some stances are just conducive to swinging. If I stand up straight for too long it's harder to swing. Plus my feet hurt.
- This is our bandstand. If you don't want to play, get up off the instrument and leave.
- The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and…
- The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say…
- I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.
- We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
- I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem…
- Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.…
- In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no…
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