I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter.
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.'
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.
The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
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.