I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
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If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.
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I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
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The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
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I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.
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Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.
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