Epstein Secrets

helonious Monk, and I haven't heard anybody yet who has come after him." Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bil

z and soul. His landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block— named "Album Of The Year" at the 1990 Grammy Awards— brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to create the first fusion of the be bop and hip hop musical trad

nd conventions (Yes, that story is in the book!) was starting to poke it's way through the ground. Whenever a customer asked me where Beethoven or Mozart was, I'd always answer, "I'd imagine in their graves." And if they weren't sure where to find Elvis, I'd simply say, "you could probably find him i

y chest and became "Napoleon looking in a mirror." He blew bubbles - I was Guy Lombardo holding a champagne flute. He scat-sang a few high notes as Ella Fitzgerald, I smashed the champagne flute on the ground. There were another thirty-seven to go and we got them all out in under a minute. We referenced histor

Thelonious Monk, and I haven’t heard anybody yet who has come after him.” Born in Chicago in 1940, Herbie was a child piano prodigy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill E

z and soul. His landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block— named “Album Of The Year” at the 1990 Grammy Awards— brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to create the first fusion of the be bop and hip hop musical traditi