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Chico Hamilton

"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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Asa Don Brown

"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."

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Asa Don Brown

"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."

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Asa Don Brown

"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."

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Asa Don Brown

"I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm not a big jazz fan."

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Asa Don Brown

"Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught."

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Asa Don Brown

"I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet."

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Asa Don Brown

"I was totally into jazz in my teens."

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Chico Hamilton
"In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect."

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Chico Hamilton
"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."

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Chico Hamilton
"Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry."

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Chico Hamilton
"The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it."

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Chico Hamilton
"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play."

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Chico Hamilton
"Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so."

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Chico Hamilton
"And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay."

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Chico Hamilton
"I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music."

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Chico Hamilton
"A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet."

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Chico Hamilton
"We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them."

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