>>>Sounds like you
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>>>Got Jesus and lost wheezes {gdr}
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>>>Now let me think: Need puff to blow trumpet - competing with using up your puff, puffing cigs.
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>>>Did you ever get one of those glitches where you rasberried on the end of the cig and/or tried to light the horn? :-)
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>>Hey, remember, this is the common cigarette we're talking about here.
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>Ha ha! Wasn't thinking of that. Although the trumpet MIGHT slightly resemble a chillum ... well, after a while :-)
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>>Truth is that because of the horn playing, I had very strong lungs in spite of the cigarettes. Although I suspect that the reason I wasn't a great player was that my trumpet probably had emphysema
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>>Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Humphrey Littleton, Bunny Berigan; they all had better trumpets than I did.
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>Once saw Dizzy Gilespie at Ronnie Scot's in London. Man, those quadruple cheeks! :-) You're probably best out of it. Think how baggy the cheeks must get in old age, once they've been stretched beyond their elasticity.

Dizzy was an anomale. The first law of playing a horn is to not blow out your cheeks that way, but to keep them tight. How he played like that is a jazz mystery.

Must be great to live in or near a city where Ronny Scot's is. It's one of those clubs like Birdland that has achieved true legendary status. Too bad he's gone. he did a lot for Jazz. I assume the club is still going strong?