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My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

— Chuck Mangione

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

— Maceo Parker

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

— Sturgill Simpson

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.

— Aaron Diehl

When I got out of high school, I joined a local blues band in Philadelphia - Woody's Truck Stop.

— Todd Rundgren

I came from a huge extended family of musicians.

— Jake Epstein

Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.

— John Hawkes

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

— Norman Wisdom

✗Opposing Perspectives

My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.

— Jimmy Chamberlin