That was like Art Blakey coming to my room and hearing Tony Williams. The whole band always got together somewhere, and it was usually my room because I had the little portable record player, and we’re listening to the Miles Smiles album. It was new.
EI: So you’re like on tour in Japan and listening to Miles in your room?
JB: Yeah, and Art Blakey came in after everybody else was there, knocked on the door to see what’s going on. He came in and stayed there for maybe a half hour or so. And the next three nights, we didn’t hear Art Blakey, we heard Tony Williams!
EI: Blakey was playing like Tony Williams on Miles Smiles?
JB: Exactly. Exactly. Now you figure that out.
tolles, leicht schräges, anekdotenreiches interview mit joanne brackeen.
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