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Jazz Quotes
"If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz."
7
"It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way."
Jazz,
7
"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
Jazz,
7
"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
Jazz,
6
"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."
Jazz,
6
"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
Jazz,
5
"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
5
"I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
5
"I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record."
5
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
5
"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
5
"I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff."
5
"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
Jazz,
5
"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
5
"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
Jazz,
5
"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."
Jazz,
4
"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"
4
"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
4
"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
4
"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
4
"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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