Bill Crow Quotes

• 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. 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.

  Bill Crow

  Years, Swings, Special

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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. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  Bill Crow

  Canción, Mañana, Lectura

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• Encontré a un tipo en el Bronx que tenía un viejo bajo Kay de madera contrachapada por el que quería 75 dólares. Me lo guardaba y yo le daba unos dólares cada vez que podía reunir algo de dinero extra. Mientras tanto, pedía prestados o alquilaba bajos para jam sessions y trabajos remunerados. Fue una gran emoción cuando por fin me hice con mi Kay.

  Bill Crow

  Jobs, Guy, Together

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• Mi profesor de música del colegio, Al Bennest, me introdujo en el jazz poniéndome el disco de Louis Armstrong "West End Blues". Encontré más jazz en la radio y empecé a buscar discos. El dinero que ganaba repartiendo periódicos y, más tarde, trabajando después de la escuela en una imprenta y una carnicería, me servía para comprar discos de jazz. Aprendí a tocar el saxofón alto y la batería para tocar en la banda de baile del instituto.

  Bill Crow

  Teacher, School, Order

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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. 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 Crow

  Beautiful, Piano, Numbers

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• Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.

  Bill Crow

  Blessed, Play, Space

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