JAZZ ANECDOTES
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I read some of the actions of jazz musicians in this book to a friend of mine who is a true "jazz buff" (he knew who Serge Chaloff was, for instance: a baritone sax man in Woody Herman's "Herd") and he said: Jazz musicians are like everybody else, only different." That really sums up the many anecdotes throughout generations of jazz musicians as compiled by Bill Crow. The musicians in this book, and surely hundreds of others, are unique in their dedication to what they hear in their heads and how those ideas come out in some fascinating, interesting, and often challenging notes. For example, when Count Basie complained to one of his side-men, it came out that he could read notes, just not words. Buddy Rich, so it turned out, was one of t
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