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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.
Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to TV theme music - one of my favorites is 'M*A*S*H.' I'll just play along with anything on the TV.
I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
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.
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.
Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.
If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop.
I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar.
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.
The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.
Mimi Fox is one of the most exciting contemporary jazz guitarists I've heard.
I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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