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• ‟ 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. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.

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• ‟ Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

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• ‟ The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

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• ‟ I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

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• ‟ The first time I ever played the trumpet in public, I played the Marine Hymn. I sounded terrible.

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• ‟ I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time.

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