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Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But thafs not being truthful to the music 'cause ifs not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They alnt trying to do nolliing. Everything they hear is on the itiark, but they've played it so many times I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!"
—Lester Bowie, August 1993 Down Beat Bowie died of liver cancer, at age 58, on Nov. 8, 1999, in his Brooklyn home. A full feature on the trumpeter will appear in the March issue. This photo is from the Oct. 9, 1999, Louis Armstrong tribute at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It was Bowie's last public performance in Chicago.
photo by ronald heard