MJF's Interview with
ROBYNN AMY
Artists Who Influenced
Curtis Fuller
"Meeting John Coltrane was the greatest thing that ever happened to me. It was Miles Davis who took me to New York, and Coltrane was in the band, as well as Paul Chambers, Philly Jo Jones." - Curtis Fuller
Maynard Ferguson
"The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over." - Maynard Ferguson
Clark Terry
"Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school." - Clark Terry
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
Carl Fontana
"The big bands were always my first love. That's what I really liked best, the big bands." - Carl Fontana
J.J. Johnson
"MIDI is my hobby." - J. J. Johnson
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
Miles Davis
"Bebop was about change and evolution. It wasn't about standing still and being safe." - Miles Davis
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