Art Hodes talks about learning jazz without formal training

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Art Hodes talks about touring

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Q: “I can’t think of you as a sort of traveling band musician. Did you ever do any of that?”

A: Art Hodes: “Oh, very early in my career, I played with several local bands, large bands, and I formed an instant dislike. It seemed to me that everything I touched on the piano, every note, had to be exactly chord-wise as what the saxophone players were playing or the brass was playing.”

Interviewer: “You had to fit the arrangements.”

Art Hodes: “Right, fit the arrangements and I was too loose. There's others like me, pianists I can ... Horace Silver, for example, from the era that followed me. There is any number of them that are very fine pianists and I'm sure that they can play on these bands.”