I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.
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That's a pretty tall order, ... I don't want to sound too grandiose or that I can represent jazz in its entirety. But as one of few remaining people from that period the heyday of bebop during the '40s and '50s, I want to represent myself and the kind of musicians from that period, so that people who are new to the music can say, 'These people were good they aren't just a bunch of old moldy figs.'Sonny Rollins
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
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My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
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If you could do that, it's great to do it. And a lot of great musicians have done it. A lot of musicians get to a point and stay in that groove all of their career. I have just not been able to do it because I don't think I'm a good enough musician. Someo
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I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.
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What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and to be sort of treated not in a discriminatory way. I don't think there is anything controversial about me saying that. This is just a fact.
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