CL at Jazzonline.com

How or when did you first discover jazz? It was all around me. All my uncles and relatives would play records - my cousin Longino used to play Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Prez, Dizzy, Louis Armstrong...all kinds of stuff. For me it was one of the wonders of the world. The expression of flight, brilliance, pure elixir.

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