MJF's Interview with
Bruce Forman
Artists Who Influenced
Sonny Rollins
"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again." - Sonny Rollins
Stan Getz
“A quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting with each others ideas.” - Stan Getz
Charlie Parker
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." - Charlie Parker
John Coltrane
"When there's something we think could be better, we must make an effort." - John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
"The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play." - Dizzy Gillespie
Clark Terry
"Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school." - Clark Terry
Shelly Manne
“We never play anything the same way once.” - Shelly Manne
Wes Montgomery
“It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.” - Wes Montgomery
Django Reinhardt
“Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music, but which popular music doesn't have.” - Django Reinhardt
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