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even in the black community it was looked down upon in the beginning the black middle class and the black religious class looked down on jazz that had to do with gambling it had to do with. low class low sexual morals and things like that but but you know people like ellington and alice really gave it a kind of respectability i mean after al i really you could take your mother to here to a jazz concert. meet . me here to do. it was. in the mid one nine hundred forty s. he met and married bassist ray brown and was forging
really be able to pull this off and i couldn t do it because it was just not natural for me so i delayed that wind a bit i was like well that s a good idea. i m going to read you would need to go again and i have in the back of that that that that the facts. oh vote. in the second round for the one nine hundred forty s. she started working with norman grant s already you know legendary music manager and the founder of the concert series called jazz at the philharmonic. just so i need someone to speak for me and i ll do the signing and norm on the. management contract and fifty four. recording contract at the end of fifty five and started for records on my part of it is a had a vision terms of her tolerance work ethic the integrity of her work the
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was. in the mid one nine hundred forty c. met and married bassist ray brown and was forging a new style of music together with charlie parker aren t tatum roiled ridge and dizzy gillespie a style called bebo. shared a deep musical bond with dizzy who would become an important teacher. she stood next to dizzy gillespie in all of these great great bebop players the