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puzzleoverit asked: thank you for the blue note posts. Many of these were out of print when I was searching for them years ago. First time I'd heard a lot of these.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even...
– from “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
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Monk: It’s the High Priest of Bebop talking.
Nellie: (Laughing) Oh,...
– Private recording of Thelonious and Nellie Monk, circa 1961
[From Robin Kelley’s biography of Monk]
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Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good...
– Dizzy Gillespie, quoted in Dread Diary. (via mills)
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