"I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band." - Art Pepper
source: Interview with Les Tomkins (1979)
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Christian McBride Quotes
"The most significant bands I played in when I first got to New York were Bobby Watson’s band, Roy Hargrove’s first band, Benny Golson’s band, Benny Green’s trio, and probably the most significant out of all of those, for me personally, was playing in Freddie Hubbard’s band." - Christian McBride
source: digitalinterviews.com
source: digitalinterviews.com
Don Alias Quotes
"At the end of the night, I'm sweating. I feel as though I have played. That's what I am -- I'm a player. I like to play out. With this [David Sanborn's] band, I get the opportunity to do that -- to play. That's why I'm here." - Don Alias
source: digitalinterviews.com
source: digitalinterviews.com
Barney Kessel Quotes
"When I joined the [Oscar Peterson] Trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!" - Barney Kessel
Danny Barker Quotes
"The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it." - Danny Barker
source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)
source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)
Gerry Mulligan Quotes
"Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones." - Gerry Mulligan
Norman Granz Quotes
"The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing." - Norman Granz
Jo Jones Quotes
"The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section." - Jo Jones
Duke Ellington Quotes
"There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have too have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is too pay them money!" - Duke Ellington
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity." - Dizzy Gillespie
Eberhard Weber Quotes
"As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish." - Eberhard Weber
Charlie Hunter Quotes
"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit." - Charlie Hunter
Pete Fountain Quotes
"What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy." - Pete Fountain
Stan Getz Quotes
"A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas." - Stan Getz
Chick Corea Quotes
"I enjoy playing the band as the band. I 'be' the whole band and I'm playing the drums, I'm playing the guitar, I'm playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that." - Chick Corea
Buddy Rich Quotes
"I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes." - Buddy Rich
