Alon Marcus

Pepper Adams! It wasn't that easy

Just a link to a little something you all might enjoy. The Link

This is why I made such a good guess!

Tommy Potter?

My guess: Miles or Dizzy.

Correct. Anybody who has an interesting quote is invited to be the next.

First of all, thank you Mike for the interesting quote. Now let's continue with the game. I think this will be easier than Mike's but it's still interesting.

Well Mike, personally, I give up. Have no clue who is the white alto player that said that thing about the eighties. Maybe it's time for you to resolve the mystery.

LOL

Nightfly by Donald Fagen is one of my favorite pop albums. Today my brother showed me a strange line written in small print on the first page of the liner notes. Do you know why it's there?

A little hint to help you, it was said by a woman. Wild guess: Sheila Jordan? Correct! Sheila it was! I believe that we have only Mike's quote unsolved by now.

No.

A little hint to help you, it was said by a woman.

Patience dear friends! Do not post too many unguessed quotes simultaneously , otherwise it becomes a mess.

No, nor Donaldson neither Coltrane.

Try this one

James Brown? LOL

That's right! Now let's go with John B's quote.

That was fast! You are right David. Edit: David chose to erase his post but his answer was Sonny Rollins. Next one

A simple game, each time someone will post a quote of a famous jazz musician and we will guess who might have said it. You are all invited to post your guesses and quotes too, but just to keep it orderly let's do it a one at a time. No new quotes untill the recent one is solved. I'll start, guess who said the next about Don Cherry?

Is it true that Maria Schneider said she was influenced by Metheny's composing style? What do you guys have to say about that?

Thanks, now I understand what you meant.

Larry, did you read Miles' autobiography? I'm sorry I didn't put the quotation mark, but this is what he said. What so strange about Miles expressing ambivalent feelings about something? It wasn't the first time he did it. I understand that you used the expression "ugly sentences" because I'm not that good with English (and my sentence "You have to know Miles" may arrogantly imply that I actually met him) and forgive you for using it.

And here is a link to a recent post with the famous "blindfold tests" where Miles slaughtered Taylor and Coleman. Recent thread

He was also putting down Cecil around the same time--didn't DB give him a Taylor record for a blindfold test? He said something like, "Take it off, man! Is that what the critics are digging? They'd better stop drinking coffee," or something like that. Clem--I love "What Are You Waiting For, Mary?" and have to say that Crosby also really makes that piece for me as well. To me he's an early avatar of white hip. I remember your stating elsewhere your intense disappointment with Giddin's Bing bio--do you have any recommendations for other writing about early Crosby? Yes Miles was putting Ornette down but you have to know Miles to understand that it didn't mean he wasn't listening or respecting what the man did. The same way he was putting down Brubeck and playing his tune on "Miles Ahead". In his autobiography he said that he had respect for the "new thing" or "free thing" and it was one of the things he was learning from Tony, Ron and Herbie. He also said that he changed his mind after listening to Tony Williams' descriptions of Ornette's music. His problem was that their (avant garde musicians) music was not understood by the audience and he also told that "white critics" were praising the new thing on purpose so that white artists could be popular and jazz will be pushed aside.