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The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and practice into the pillow for ano...more

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Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet an...more

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The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, i...more

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I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,” the people of my grandma’s gene...more

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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

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it ain't as hard as picking cotton