[00:01.35]I told that story about how Charlie Parker became Charlie Parker,right?
[00:05.06]Jo Jones threw a cymbal at his head.
[00:06.27]Exactly.
[00:08.45]Parker was a young kid, pretty good on the sax.
[00:10.60]Gets up to play in the cutting session.
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[00:13.35]And Jones nearly decapitates him for it,and he's laughed off-stage.
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[00:19.53]Cried himself to sleep that night,but the next morning,what does he do?
[00:22.77]He practices,and he practices and he practices,with one goal in mind.
[00:29.38]Never to be laughed at again.
[00:31.64]And a year later he goes back to the Reno,
[00:35.30]and he steps up on the stage and he play the best solo the world has never heard.
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[00:44.75]So imagine if Jones just said,"well,that's ok Charlie, that was alright, good job".
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[00:53.70]And Charlie thinks to himself "well, I did a pretty good job".
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[00:58.09]End of story. No bird.
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[01:03.02]That to me is an absolute tragedy.But that's just what the world wants now.
[01:10.22]People wonder why Jazz is dying.
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[01:15.30]I tell you, man.
[01:16.55]Every Starbucks' Jazz album just proved my point, really.
[01:21.90]There are no two words in English language more harmful than "good job"!
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