I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.
Learn to deal with the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.
Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard.
If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.
I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'