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It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.

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There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

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I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

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Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

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I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

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I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

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I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

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Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

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I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?

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I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 7th, 1930

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