MJF's Interview with
BOBBY HUTCHERSON
Artists Who Influenced
Benny Goodman
“I remember Glen Miller coming to me once, before he had is own band, saying, how do you do it? How do you get started? It’s so difficult. I told him, I don’t know but whatever you do, don’t stop. Just keep on going.” - Benny Goodman
Lionel Hampton
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” - Lionel Hampton
Tommy Flanagan
"I’m in touch with the past, I keep the faith with simplicity. I even still have a rotary phone." - Tommy Flanagan
Count Basie
"If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves." - Count Basie
Milt Jackson
“If I’m not saying it in four choruses or less, then I’m not saying it.” - Milt Jackson
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