interview Wynton Marsalis. (Ken Burns)

Now, jazz music is not race music. Everybody plays jazz music. Everybody has always played it. But when people teach the history of Jazz they always talk about white bands and black bands. Musicians don't learn that way. See, this is the big lie in the way that it's taught. Benny Goodman was going to learn the clarinet from whoever he could. Elvin Jones studied with a guy who played in the Detroit Symphony. Miles Davis went to Juilliard and studied with William Vachiano. Now, he didn't learn from William Vachiano, but he's a trumpet player so he 's going to learn from whoever is there. Louis Armstrong's style is influenced by the style of cornet virtuosos like Bohumir Kryl and Herbert L.Clarke. Bunny Berigan is influenced by Louis Armstrong. Bix Beiderbecke is influenced by Louis Armstrong. Lester Young is influenced by Frankie Trumbauer. That 's how music is. You hear something you like and you want to play like that.
Bohumir Kryl ( 1875 -1961 ) trompettist bij 'the famous Sousa band' (foto)






