Fifty years ago on October 28, 1973, my first band "Focus" played a gig in Hyde Park at the Quadrangle Club. I used to have lunch there with my father where he would point out two or three Nobel Prize laureates (not intimidating at all). This place was a home-away-from-home for some very serious world-class brain power professors (including my dad Benjamin Bloom) from the University of Chicago.
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In America, people who get A’s are smart, disciplined, and will help to enlighten society. And people who get F’s are stupid, uncreative, and probably will have no effect on society. Right?
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Topics: j, chicago jazz, jazz programs, jazz school, potential
For years I have heard people say “that’s the best I could do.” It’s a nice notion that someone did the very best that they could do. But was it?
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Topics: jazz, bloom school, the best i could do, potential, i can do better
