MJF's Interview with
MILTON FLETCHER
Artists Who Influenced
Bruce Forman
"It's not about what you know, it's not about what you can do, it's about playing the music as it exists in the moment." - Bruce Forman
Freddie Hubbard
"You don't realize at first when you listen to Armstrong's records how great this man was and how hard that Hot Five music was to play. After the experience of reading and playing those parts, I have an even greater respect for Louis Armstrong than before." - Freddie Hubbard
Paul Contos
"I'm always encouraging saxophone students to use the bis key. If it weren't for the bis key, I probably wouldn't play saxophone." - Paul Contos
Scott Steed
"Intonation is very important on the bass because we are the root of the chord, the bottom of the chord, and everything is built off us." - Scott Steed
Vince Lateano
"Play as much as you can because practicing is good, but when you play you find out what you really should work on." - Vince Lateano
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
Clifford Brown
"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived." - Herb Alpert
Herbie Hancock
"The instrument is a mechanical thing. What I want to project is music which is human, it transcends the instrument." - Herbie Hancock @ MJF/54
Oscar Peterson
You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz. - Oscar Peterson
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