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Jay McShann

"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Donna Grant

"The night creeps in by subtle degrees while a show of fierce colors attracts and distracts me. I look up, suddenly aware of remote lights scattered overhead. I gasp as the last streak of fire dies on the horizon, and I comprehend it all too late. That crafty, dark night has swallowed my world whole."

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Donna Grant

"Dread of night. Dread of not-night."

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Donna Grant

"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."

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Donna Grant

"How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die."

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Donna Grant

"You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long."

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Donna Grant

"The Brooklyn Dodgers had a no hitter last night."

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Donna Grant

"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."

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Donna Grant

"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Donna Grant

"I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters."

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Donna Grant

"I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again."

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Jay McShann
"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Jay McShann
"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."

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Jay McShann
"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."

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Jay McShann
"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."

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Jay McShann
"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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Jay McShann
"It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn."

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Jay McShann
"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."

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Jay McShann
"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."

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