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"I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society."
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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
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"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."
"Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there."
"You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives."
"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
"I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together."
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