A New Game for all of you to take part

[Alon Marcus]

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?

Don is a very individual musician. For a time I had the tendency to lump Don and Ornette together. But now I've discovered that Don is a musician in his own right.

[Alon Marcus]

That was fast!

You are right David.

Edit: David chose to erase his post but his answer was Sonny Rollins.

Next one

You have really to play your instrument to escape from notes and sound

Edited February 21, 2005 by Alon Marcus

[couw]

Albert Ayler

[John B]

Here is another pearl of wisdom for you to figure out:

"Charlie Parker would squeak a lot, and that's why they called him Bird, because his reed would chirp. "

[Alon Marcus]

Albert Ayler

That's right!

Now let's go with John B's quote.

[Peter Johnson]

Kenneth Gorelick!

[John B]

Kenneth Gorelick!

correct! (your guess, that is. Not the content of his quote.)

[ghost of miles]

"Man, get the f*%# off the stage!"

[ghost of miles]

Here is another pearl of wisdom for you to figure out:

"Charlie Parker would squeak a lot, and that's why they called him Bird, because his reed would chirp. "

[Ron S]

"Man, get the f*%# off the stage!"

George Bush to John Kerry during the first Presidential Debate???

[sheldonm]

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?

Don is a very individual musician. For a time I had the tendency to lump Don and Ornette together. But now I've discovered that Don is a musician in his own right.

Actually I've said it a few times but I'm sure I'm not the answer you were looking for !

[catesta]

"Man, get the f*%# off the stage!"

Miles to Wynton Marsalis?

[ghost of miles]

"Man, get the f*%# off the stage!"

Miles to Wynton Marsalis?

Ding ding ding! A free month's worth of fast food and porn-surfing to Mr. Catesta. B-)

[maren]

Who told THIS story?

"I had a wonderful time, talking to Chet [baker] -- I was there when he first played with Gerry Mulligan, who asked would I consider giving his wife piano lessons? Well, you know the answer to that. Chet was striking looking. That was the era of James Dean, you know. When I came off the bandstand, Chet wanted me to talk to someone who had just come in. 'I'm the greatest writer in America,' this fellow told me. And I was a big 23, so I said, 'I'm the greatest pianist in America.' Then I went up again to play, and when I came off, Jack Kerouac said, 'Well, you are!' And he gave me a manuscript and a wonderful walking stick."

[couw]

Cecil Taylor

[catesta]

"Man, get the f*%# off the stage!"

Miles to Wynton Marsalis?

Ding ding ding! A free month's worth of fast food and porn-surfing to Mr. Catesta. B-)

Starting............., NOW!!!

[catesta]

My turn....

“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”

[maren]

"...Chet was striking looking. That was the era of James Dean, you know. When I came off the bandstand, Chet wanted me to talk to someone who had just come in. 'I'm the greatest writer in America,' this fellow told me. And I was a big 23, so I said, 'I'm the greatest pianist in America.' Then I went up again to play, and when I came off, Jack Kerouac said, 'Well, you are!' And he gave me a manuscript and a wonderful walking stick."

Cecil Taylor

But of course!!!

Edited December 27, 2004 by maren

[couw]

My turn....

“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”

Helge Schneider!

uhm... that ain't right is it?

[maren]

My turn....

“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”

Paul Desmond.

[catesta]

My turn....

“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”

Paul Desmond.

Right on!

[couw]

Right on!

James Brown?

[Alon Marcus]

Right on! 

James Brown?

LOL

[Alon Marcus]

Try this one

I treated Charlie Parker as some kind of musical god. As far as the music being difficult, I never thought about it. It just seemed like sounds I never heard before and I knew I'd never hear again.

[Peter Johnson]

Try this one

I treated Charlie Parker as some kind of musical god. As far as the music being difficult, I never thought about it. It just seemed like sounds I never heard before and I knew I'd never hear again.

Wild-ass guess:

Lou Donaldson

-or-

John Coltrane?