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“It is not often someone comes along that’s a true friend and good writer. Charlotte was both.”— Narrator, Charlotte’s Web
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T-Rex Trying To Put On A Cardigan
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6 posts tagged jazz
Soopy and co. playing Super Mario Bros. themes and more
(This guy also makes a Pearl Rhythm Traveler kit sound good—no easy feat.)
Nice follow-up quote from Erroll Garner a few chapters after the Miles Davis quote I posted earlier:
“I always play for my audience … The day you say you don’t need your public, you should give up your instrument and quit, I don’t care who you are.”
I’m really living this book. I wish I could shake Art Taylor’s hand for doing these interviews with so many giants.
Who chi who chi coo
Art Taylor:: What does 'who chi coo' mean, and how do you spell it?
Erroll Garner:: Just the way it sounds. 'Who chi coo' is an expression that Sarah Vaughan and I used all the time years ago, because we were very good friends ... It means "magnificent obsession." If I dig what you do, when we're playing, you're a magnificent obsession; if I don't, I say nothing. So when I say "Who chi who chi coo," that means you really are a magnificent obsession.
“The thing is, I never think about an audience. I just think about the band. And if the band is all right, I know the audience is pleased. I don’t have to hold the audience’s hand. I think audiences are hipper than musicians think they are. They wouldn’t be there if they didn’t want to hear some music, so you don’t have to con them into believing that this music is great. I figure they can judge for themselves, and those who don’t like it don’t have to like it, and those who do like it will have a nice time listening. If I go to a concert, I take it like that.”
Miles Davis, interviewed by Art Taylor in New York City, January 22, 1968 (from Taylor’s book Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews)
I’m not too proud to say that I learned of Elvin Jones just after he died, when Terry Gross played some old interviews on Fresh Air and marked his passing. I’d heard him before, of course, on Coltrane recordings, but I’m not the drummer from That Thing You Do, and my jazz knowledge doesn’t usually go beyond the name on the front of the album cover. That said, I love listening to some good jazz.
And I really love listening to a good drum solo.
Elvin Jones- Big Solo (via benenunes)
