The Beginning

Louis Armstrong

Django Reinhardt

The Soloist’s Voice

Transcriptions

A Disgrace to Jazz?

• “It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s a feeling.”

• --Bill Evans

• People who use terms like “the Chicagoans” or “New Orleans-Style”—I despise that stuff. I get so disgusted that you have to be from one particular part of the country to play good jazz.”

• --Pee Wee Russell

“Jazz Music is the Power of Now”

• Lester Young has 9,115 “likes” on Facebook

• Benny Goodman has 55,651 “likes”

• John Coltrane has 550,072 “likes”

Acknowledgements • Hal McKusick • James Earle • Therese Lichtenstein• Adam Judd • My Parents and Nikki Betuel • Dale Scott • Leslie Wells • All of my friends • Everyone who came today • Ross School