I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky.
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.Benny Green
Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
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The tour was just Ray Brown. We were booked, in the course of this tour, at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland to play as a duo.
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I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
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We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal.
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
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