MJF's Interview with
SHERMAN IRBY
Artists Who Influenced
Cannonball Adderley
"A young tenor player was complaining to me that Coleman Hawkins made him nervous. Man, I told him Hawkins was supposed to make him nervous! Hawkins has been making other sax players nervous for forty years!" - Cannonball Adderley
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
Sonny Stitt
"I like everybody. I have no grievance, and no complaints." - Sonny Stitt
Miles Davis
"Bebop was about change and evolution. It wasn't about standing still and being safe." - Miles Davis
Recommended Recordings
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