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You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

~Lee Konitz

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It's very demanding to make up your own music.

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Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

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Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

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Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

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I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

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I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 13th, 1927

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