top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
Example
"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
Money
"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
Support
"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
Music
"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."
Jazz
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."
People
"It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again."
Creation
"I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves."
Music
"There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time."
Age
"Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there."
Time
bottom of page