Quotes by Cedar Walton

And those guys, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter, they ate it up like it was Post Toasties. They played it better than I could.

On bringing his tune "Mosaic" to an Art Blakey Jazz Messengers rehearsal.

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Higgins, for instance, is a drummer who, when it's time for the downbeat, he's on fire immediately. There is no buildup.

Asked what he looks for in his trio sidemen, Walton points to his longtime drummer Higgins.

Billy Higgins had a, uh, place out there, The World Stage, where he gathered and encouraged the young musicians includin' Willie.

Explaining where young Los Angeles drummers came up, Walton credits the space Higgins built.