Art Farmer discusses music lessons versus being self-taught

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Art Farmer discusses traveling

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Art Farmer on New York

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Q: ”Is it maybe better to learn how to play trumpet by sitting beside Roy Eldridge or Emmet Barry or somebody or is it better to have a book and a record?”

A: “Well, I tell you, I sat beside Edmund Barry [ph] for a few weeks, playing with Harris Henderson [ph] and that was the first real big-time trumpet player that I worked beside, and I'm telling you, you really had to know what questions to ask.”