#jaz

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians. ↗

— Walter Becker

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#best #better #blues #influences #jazz

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#american-dream #fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #short-stories #women

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. ↗

— Ken Burns

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#accurate #democracy #film #future #i