I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.
From Norman Granz
If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Ella can work nightclubs that Duke might not be able to work, because of having the big band. Where they go now is strictly a matter of their own names and talents.
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
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