91. His name was attached to songs that have served blues and jazz musicians through nearly a century. 92. His only non-Easy title, the novel is instead the story of a struggling jazz musician. 93. Hopkins was one of many jazz musicians who studied under Walter Dyett, an imperious, inspiring music teacher at DuSable High School in Chicago. 94. His friend in those days was a then-unknown jazz musician named Cal Tjader. 95. His Spanish-born father was a jazz musician who played reed instruments and led a swing band. 96. I liked to imagine they were also jazz musicians and intense couples who had discovered each other the evening before. 97. I guess I would be described as a jazz musician. 98. If the Asian-American jazz musicians have their way, this pairing may one day seem completely ordinary. 99. In addition to his career as a jazz musician, Carson was a U.S. marshal working at the Justice Department on surveillance duty. 100. Improvisation after improvisation brought together all the various rhetorical techniques jazz musicians learn from the blues. |