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I told that story about how Charlie Parker became Charlie Parker,right? |
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Jo Jones threw a cymbal at his head. |
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Exactly. |
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Parker was a young kid, pretty good on the sax. |
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Gets up to play in the cutting session. |
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And Jones nearly decapitates him for it,and he's laughed off-stage. |
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Cried himself to sleep that night,but the next morning,what does he do? |
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He practices,and he practices and he practices,with one goal in mind. |
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Never to be laughed at again. |
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And a year later he goes back to the Reno, |
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and he steps up on the stage and he play the best solo the world has never heard. |
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So imagine if Jones just said,"well,that's ok Charlie, that was alright, good job". |
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And Charlie thinks to himself "well, I did a pretty good job". |
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End of story. No bird. |
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That to me is an absolute tragedy.But that's just what the world wants now. |
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People wonder why Jazz is dying. |
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I tell you, man. |
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Every Starbucks' Jazz album just proved my point, really. |
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There are no two words in English language more harmful than "good job"! |
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