Transcript for the Piece Audio version of NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young gives advice to aspiring players

SNOOKY YOUNG_SNOOKY WISDOM
(:90)

NOW A JAZZ MOMENT…

MUSIC: Catch a Star
CD: Snooky & Marshal’s Album Concord Jazz CCD-4055 (cut 7)

Snooky Young: I know I can’t play like I did when I was 55 or 25, 35. Who can, you know what I’m saying. And that goes for anything. But I’m still in there. I still play.

NEA JAZZ MASTER SNOOKY YOUNG PLAYED WITH MANY OF THE GREATEST BIG BANDS OF HIS DAY – JIMMIE LUNCEFORD, COUNT BASIE, LIONEL HAMPTON, THAD JONES & MEL LEWIS… BUT IT DIDN’T COME EASY. HIS ADVICE TO ASPIRING PLAYERS?

Snooky Young: Practice. And practice a lot. And listen to people you like, imitate em for a while, but after you get to be a man of a certain age you move on, on your own.

MUSIC: up and fades

THIS JAZZ MOMENT WITH TRUMPETER SNOOKY YOUNG WAS CREATED BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.