MJF's Interview with
DAVE BRUBECK
Artists Who Influenced
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
Fats Waller
“It's so easy, when you know how.” - Fats Waller
Woody Herman
“My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I’m an editor.” - Woody Herman
Art Tatum
"You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!" - Art Tatum
Stan Kenton
“I don’t think you can replace great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don’t want to hear them played the same way all the time.” - Stan Kenton
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
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