ADAM ROGERS
Wes is probably my main and most important influence as a guitarist. As a
young developing player, I had a cassette recording that was an
important resource for me. I’d listen to the radio and press the
“record” button when something interested me and then push “stop” when
it stopped interesting me. So I’d have fragments of tunes, and I got
this piece of Wes playing with a big band—just his solo and a bit of the
big band playing the head out. I had one or two cassettes that I
recorded this way. I didn’t know who any of these players were because
they weren’t announced. It turned out that it was a lot of Wes and Wayne
Shorter, Pat Martino, stuff from Joe Henderson’s Inner Urge, but
I had no idea who anybody was. I was just starting my jazz studies,
basically. And this one thing of Wes’ just blew me away.
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