“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
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“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.” ― Miles Davis https://t.co/Qgd79BOcO8
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Mark Levine • The Jazz Piano Book
I remember once, when I was a kid, hearing Johnny Winter singing “Tired of Tryin’ ” with Muddy Waters on guitar, on the Nothin’ but the Blues album, and hearing him sing and liking what I heard and then looking at a picture of him on the album and double-taking, maybe triple-taking, and then wondering what it meant to be black (or white, or albino)
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The great jazz vocalist Mel Tormé was only 11 years old when he first discovered Kay on Chesterfield. He was enthralled by her innovative use of voices and the fact that her group was the very first “to approximate a band.” “Kay knows more about vocal-group writing than any other person alive,” Tormé wrote in his book My Singing Teachers. He partic
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