MJF's Interview with
ROY MCCURDY
Artists Who Influenced
Art Taylor
“Kenny Dorham used to say that when I really got my stroke going I would get in a crouch and then he said -- why don’t I get into a crouch when I start at night?” - Art Taylor
Jimmy Cobb
"His original nickname was Cannibal, because he ate so much. But Cannibal became Cannonball. He was a sweetheart. A smart, intelligent guy who could play." - Jimmy Cobb on the origins of Cannonball Adderley's nickname.
Stan Levey
"It was like living in the eye of a hurricane." - Stan Levey on sharing an apartment with Charlie Parker in Harlem.
Art Blakey
“A name doesn’t make the music. It’s just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.” -Art Blakey
Shelly Manne
“We never play anything the same way once.” - Shelly Manne
Philly Joe Jones
"The greatest experience of my life was with Miles, of course.... I could get with Miles and go into anything, just like he does with me.... He would know the amount of time that I had to be playing, and I'd come out right, and it would bring him right back, and he'd come right back where I was ... and it was always beautiful." - Philly Joe Jones
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