J. J. Johnson
J. J. Johnson
James Louis "J. J." Johnson was an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. He was sometimes credited as Jay Jay Johnson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth22 January 1924
CountryUnited States of America
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It's really become a game of chicken, ... But to mix my metaphors, the consumer has also become trained like Pavlov's dog. He expects the pre-Christmas sales and deeper price cuts through the holidays.
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It's amazing the support we've gotten from the military people. People (who) said before they made jokes about curling now have some respect for it.
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Everyone has a brick wall in their genealogy. Not too many people can trace their lineage back all the way.
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Everybody was saying they had caught us and we weren't that good. I'm of the adage that you have to show me.
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Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.
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I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
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That Yes, I know what you mean-that is the technical definition of Best Friend Forever.
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There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!
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In those days before hearing Charlie Parker and Dizzy, and before learning of the so-called bebop era--by the way, I have some thoughts about that word, "bebop"--my first jazz hero ever, jazz improvisor hero, was Lester Young. I was a big "Lester Young-oholic," and all of my buddies were Lester Young-oholics. We'd get together and dissect, analyze, discuss, and listen to Lester Young's solos for hours and hours and hours. He was our god.
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