The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
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Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.Norman Granz
If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
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For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
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Of the newer people I would like to display to the public, I find it almost impossible to get them to agree to the jam session form.
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Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
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Today it's rare to find a major artist that would be willing to break up his own group. They need the musical security their own groups give them.
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