Caughney Roberts  - Chapter 8

I was so intrigued the way Ory was playing the trombone part. It was just interesting. The way he chose to come in, his decision when to come in fairly intrigued me. How he would make the fill-in at the proper spot. He ’s liable to wait ten measures before he ’d come in, but that would be the right place. His sense of timing was fantastic. The place where he put that note, that ’s where it was supposed to be. Teddy had learned Dixieland under Ory. After he learned it, Teddy decided to get a band of his own.

I just felt stagnant; fifteen years, that was long enough. I kept on teaching, but I ’m not interested in working anymore. I play with the James Judkins orchestra, but that 's just practice. That ’s about as much as I want to do. I 'm more or less retired. One of these days I ’m going to start practicing. I got some more hard [tuition] books to work on. My philosophy was always to keep studying. You keep studying, you keep improving.