You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.