Quotes
Compiled from Ted Heath 21st Anniversary Album Interviews by Alan Dell
Count Basie:
“You’ve got a band... Ted Heath... He scares me to death... When they sent those first Heath records over to the States they really knocked everybody out... For me I think Ted is the best precision band and so very entertaining…I mean so far as I’m concerned I think Ted is the most”
Stan Kenton:
“Your music has become such an institution it seems that we have always had it... I do know that without you, big band music and jazz would not be as it is today... Your taste and integrity in guiding your arrangers, composers and musicians has always been of the highest order... You’ve done more than your share in exposing the best grade of music to those hungry for it all over the world...”
Woody Herman:
“I saw the band and was incredibly impressed……one of the cleanest and swingiest of the big bands of the era... Always rated at the top of the list... You would hear more Ted Heath records than ours, Basie or Ellington...”
Johnny Mathis:
“He is a very kind man and genteel man... His music is quite different from the way he is as a person... His music is almost savage sometimes... His music is marvellous…”
Marlene Dietrich:
“He’s a great man...”
Tony Bennett:
“I’m very honored to work with him... Ted Heath has always upheld that good music wins out...”
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