Showing posts with label Swing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swing. Show all posts
Sweets Edison Quotes
"If you messed with us, you found your hindquarters on the floor at the end of the night. We didn't play around. We swung, and we kept swinging ... you were in a big natural mess if you came up against us." - Sweets Edison
Artie Shaw Quotes
"The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging." - Artie Shaw
source: Jazz Connection Magazine
source: Jazz Connection Magazine
Jay McShann Quotes
"They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging." - Jay McShann
Artie Shaw Quotes
Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Form will ever come back?'"
Artie Shaw Quotes
"Swing is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a swing band in music." - Artie Shaw
