The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States. |
I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown. |
It's important to address young people in the reopening of New Orleans. In rebuilding, let's revisit the potential of American democracy and American glory. |
I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced. |
I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time. |
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time. |