New Orleans (1947)
Richard Hageman: Henry Ferber
Quotes
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Henry Ferber : That note isn't even in the diatonic scale.
Louis Armstrong : Diatonic? Did I do something wrong?
Henry Ferber : Something extraordinary. You are playing notes between flat and natural. It's like discovering - a secret scale just made for this type of music.
Louis Armstrong : Horn, did you hear what the gentleman said?
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Nick Duquesne : While Dr. Jekyll conducts the classics in the concerts, Mr. Hyde comes down to Basin Street to play ragtime. Is it to get away from something?
Henry Ferber : Maybe it's to - come back to something.
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Nick Duquesne : I suppose you think ragtime is all right as long as its locked up down here.
Henry Ferber : No, that's the trouble. You can't lock it up. It leaks through everywhere. It's as though I caught some virus. Except that a virus makes one ill and this music doesn't make me ill. It makes me feel very well!
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Henry Ferber : Satchmo, play me something loud and mean as possible.
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Louis Armstrong : What kind of music's in there?
Henry Ferber : Uptown music.
Louis Armstrong : Uptown music?
Henry Ferber : Want to see it?
Louis Armstrong : Yeah.
[looks and points at the sheet music]
Louis Armstrong : Don't these little fags on the fences get in the way of your feelings sometimes?
[Ferber laughs]