He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.
BILL CROWWe sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip.
More Bill Crow Quotes
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Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music.
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I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.
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I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist.
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My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)’s theme song “Snowfall,” which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique.
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Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan’s] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.
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I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together.
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My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records.
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Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.
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We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip.
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