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Our understanding of music and our understanding of who we could be and who we actually are has limited us from knowing our history

— Jon Batiste

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Classical music is cool, but what if you took it and you expressed it in this way instead of the way that everybody says you should express it?

And then I moved to New York and I started hearing Thelonious Monk's music at jam sessions and I was like, 'Oh, wow, I'm trying to be able to play in a way that is very aligned to this music.

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