Een tip van
Vince vega leidde me naar een recent
interview met Sonny Rollins in The New York Times, en daarin kwam ik deze quote nog tegen. Nu ik toch de platen van Miles Davis op MuMe allemaal aan het volspammen ben, wil ik toekomstig geïnteresseerden deze niet onthouden:
Q: In your solo [on “The Serpent’s Tooth” with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis] you quoted the melody of “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better). That wasn’t intended as a provocation [towards Parker]?
A: If I was so stupid to have to implied that, then I was ignorant. I was in Miles’s band at the time and “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)” was just one of the riffs that we played. It had nothing to do with my attitude about Charlie Parker. I would never say that to him. But I take your criticism. I might have been a foolish young boy playing that to his guru. If there was a little of that, it was sophomoric. I was ignorant. I am still ignorant about many things.