ANDREW: But do you think there’s a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.

Damien Chazelle
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Andrew Jackson Fletcher is an American jazz musician, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He is known for his contributions to bebop jazz, but has also played with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong. Fletcher was born in 1918. He is also the father of jazz pianist Herbie Hancock.

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