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	Podcast:		Jazz Fest Minutes
	Episode:		Jazz Fest Minutes: Trumpeter And Vocalist Gregg Stafford
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2013-04-23 08:30:00
	Description:		Great New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Gregg Stafford spent much of his childhood in the Central City neighborhood. He saw lots of parades, often sang in church, and developed a real love of music. When it came time for high school, Stafford had the chance to join the school band — if his mother approved. So he told her, “I don’t have an elective at the moment, so the band instructor asked me, would I be interested in music? ‘Oh no, no, no, no; I don’t have no money to pay for no horn, so you can just scratch that,’” she told him. But the band instructor told Stafford that he would be willing to give him an instrument. So Stafford told his mom that. “She said, ‘No, I’m not going to sign anything like that because if you lose it I’m still responsible for the instrument.’ So I was a little upset. I went back to school the next morning. So the band instructor, he was standing in the office waiting for me. I said, ‘Well look, my mother don’t want to sign the papers.’ He says, ‘Well, why
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