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November 15, 2006 by Doug Ramsey

GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE The pig pen smelled like pigs. --William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury … [Read more...]

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November 15, 2006 by Doug Ramsey

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.--Maurice Ravel I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.--Igor Stravinsky It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And … [Read more...]

Doug Ramsey

Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

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