I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.Lionel Hampton
That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.
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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
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Jazz went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad.
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So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
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