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That Sound In Tune To You?.. Sounds Sharp To Me. Sounds Like I'm Playing Sharp All The Time. My Singing Teacher Told Us You Should Do That. Maybe I Got It From Her. She Said Singers When They Grow Old Have A Tendency To Go Flat. So If You Sing Sharp As A Young Person, As You Get Older And Go Flat, You'll Be In Tune. In Other Words, It's Never Thought Good To Be Flat. It Means You Can't Get To The Tone.

I, Myself, Came To Enjoy The Players Who Didn't Only Just Swing But Who Invented New Rhythmic Patterns, Along With New Melodic Concepts. And Those People Are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie And Charles Parker, Who Is The Greatest Genius Of All To Me Because He Changed The Whole Era Around.

Our Nights Didn't Begin Until After Noon. Because In The Old Days, You'd Start Birdland At 8:30 Or 9 Pm And Play Until 4 In The Morning. Then You'd Go Out To The Corner And Talk To A Couple Of Musicians - I Used To Talk To Oscar Pettiford A Whole Lot - You'd Stand There Till 7, 8 Or 9, Or Else Go Down To The Jam Session At Minton's.

I Always Wanted To Be A Spontaneous Composer.

It (jazz) Isn't Like It Used To Be. The Guys Aren't Together. They're All Separated. Individuals Now. Bird Was A Symbol. It Was A Clique, A Clique Of People. Who All Believed In One Thing: Gettin' High. And Playin'.