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Video Gallery Clip Transcript: Charles Tolliver

Pops and Birks are two players that I put on a complete level that it's not disturbed in my mind, you know in terms of if I was going to analyze or emulate or try to emulate at that point. I knew earlier on that they just deserved a special place that I would just enjoy listening to them play but not to get at any of it. I was more inclined to want to get at, especially after I heard Lee Morgan live with Dizz's band in the park that I could get at that.