Notes and Tones - Musician-to-Musician Interviews
Arthur Taylor
"Has New York changed much since the early days when you were on Fifty-second Street?"
"They don't have anyplace to experiment for young guys who start playing and who play their own stuff. It's because of all those records they make nowadays...you know, the guys copy off the records, so they don't have anything original. You can't find a musician who plays anything different. They all copy off each other. If I were starting out again, I wouldn't listen to records. I very seldom listen to jazz records, because they all do the same thing. I only listen to guys that are original, like Ahmad Jamal and Duke Ellington, guys like Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Coltrane."
"They don't have anyplace to experiment for young guys who start playing and who play their own stuff. It's because of all those records they make nowadays...you know, the guys copy off the records, so they don't have anything original. You can't find a musician who plays anything different. They all copy off each other. If I were starting out again, I wouldn't listen to records. I very seldom listen to jazz records, because they all do the same thing. I only listen to guys that are original, like Ahmad Jamal and Duke Ellington, guys like Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and Coltrane."
Arthur Taylor and Miles Davis - New York, 1968.
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