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Talkin' Blues with Jimmy Herring
JH: He reached everybody! I guess I was about 21 when I got into him. John Sutton, the drummer I was playing with then could really swing, and he was able to play real jazz, which I wasn't because I'm coming from all this rock stuff. So my friend got a call from this artist in residence at the Technical Institute in Fayetteville, North Carolina. His name was Clarence Palmer, and he was brilliant; he used to play with George Benson.
So John got this gig with him because they would do duo stuff, he was playing the bass himself without a bassist, and my God, they sounded like a whole band playing. So after getting to know him and hanging out with him and his family I got exposed to Jimmy Smith. So when I heard Jimmy Smith, I thought, "Oh my God, this is it!" I love him, he's the quintessential guy when it comes to playing Hammond.
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