Harry Colomby: Self (personal manager)
Quotes
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Self (personal manager) : He saw himself as modern. He liked to use the word modern - a modern jazz player. Blacks who were listening to that music saw an expression of independence and pride and strength. Thelonious Monk just represented that. The earliest example of the black revolution - of black uprising, in a sense - was in music, was in the bebop period - were the musicians weren't obviously trying to please an audience; but, they were playing their music their way, It was a real independent expression.
