Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
タグ: time, achievement, music, art

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Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
タグ: ready, see, like, fight
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.
タグ: lips, like, never, me
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.
タグ: band, old, father, time
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
タグ: remember, calm, people, you
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
タグ: section, rhythm, heart, music
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