I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... 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 BasieOf course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
Count BasieI think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.
Count Basie