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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Dead
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Nov 07, 2020

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

Right
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Nov 07, 2020

Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!

Chord
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Nov 07, 2020

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Compromising
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Nov 07, 2020

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Nov 07, 2020

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

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