Don Was
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
How Blue Note Changed My Frame of Mind
In 1966, he was 14 years old. He got an AM FM portable radio and started listening to the jazz station. A lot of the music he liked was coming from this one little label out of New York called Blue Note Records. The statement that came through to him, although not necessarily in these words, was, "You've got to groove in the face of adversity"
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