We're Blues People. And Blues Never Lets

When Me And My Brother Would Go To See Our Daddy Playing, There'd Be 30 People In The Audience. I Was Only 14 Or 15, But I Realised Something Was Wrong.

The Real Power Of Jazz Is That A Group Of People Can Come Together And Create Improvised Art And Negotiate Their Agendas... And That Negotiation Is The Art

I'll Write Down And Catalogue All The Different Devices That Are Americana To Me, And I Try To Have A Historic Depth And Breadth And Also The Things That We Do In Our Time, The Type Of Vamps And Chants, Things That Are Available To Us.

The First Jazz Musician Was A Trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, And The Last Will Be A Trumpeter, The Archangel Gabriel.

He [benny Carter] Is All That Every Jazz Musician The World Over Wants To Be. He's Performed 20,000 Nights. How Many Shoes Have Been Shined? How Much Mascara Put On? Rouge? How Many Of Those Impossible Bowties Have Been Tied? How Many Love Songs Have Been Sung? How Many Dances Have Been Danced? How Many Have Passed To The Sound Of His Music? It's Been Said That A Man Should Not Be Forced To Live Up To His Art. Benny Carter Is One Of The Rare Instances When We Wonder Whether The Great Art That A Man Has Created Can Live Up To Him.