Eine kleine Story von Allen Lowe für die JMac-Apokryphen:
… clearly Cecil [Taylor], who got a lot of rejection from the older guys, was trying hard to get them to listen – Jackie McLean told me once that his biggest regret was turning away Cecil, who knocked on his door one night because he wanted to discuss making a recording together – Jackie wasn’t well, but he always though it was a mistake: „Bird always told me, listen to everyone.“
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