Jimmy Cobb: Funny things used to happen in the studio.
Tina Brown: And we jumped in. I remember that. That's where everyone got mixed up.
Cobb: Oh yes. That's just the way it was. We had a lot of fun.
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Brown: And at that time, to be on the front page of the Sunday Times, it was a big billboard.
Cobb: Like playing three notes at once and notes above what the horn could do.
Brown: [laughs] It’s very retro.
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Cobb: Everyone kind of got quiet. That’s what people did back then.
Brown: After that, it was like, "So what? It wasn't so bad. I'm still here."
Cobb: There was no animosity there.
Brown: Not at all!
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Cobb: He thrived on the stuff he stirred up. Probably the power of it. It would make the hairs stand up on my arms and neck, where people are singing and shouting in church.
Brown: He was Arianna's publisher, and he used to give wonderful big parties where he would have all the young, frothing talent.
Cobb: He didn’t care. He just wanted you to swing him up.
Brown: He overpaid wildly out of enthusiasm.
Cobb: The hype is there because it’s real.