I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
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In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
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Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
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There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
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