"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

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"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."

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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."

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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."

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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."

Sonny Rollins, American Musician

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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."

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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."

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"I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan."

Norman Granz, American Musician

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"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."

Ritchie Blackmore, English Musician

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"The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that."

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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."

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"Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!"

Being

"My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician."

Parents

"You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning."

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"And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality."

Sentimentality

"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."

Father

"Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians."

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