Jazz Quotes
Most Famous Jazz Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best jazz quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Jazz Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles!
I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical theater, which sent a previously undiscovered current coursing through the body, demanding outlet.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
I was in rehab for nine months, and I needed some solace and distraction. I was in town one day and I sort of stumbled into a jazz jam session, and kept going back.
I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.
There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.
Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.
I go through phases where I'm not into jazz as much, and then I'll get heavy, heavy, heavy into it.
For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles.
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and there would be a jam session with everyone playing jazz.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.
My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.
I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.
When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance - he's a funky trumpet player, so he was my man.
I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes.
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
I studied and sang lot of jazz when I was growing up. I think that plays a little bit into some of the things I do vocally, notes that I pick in chords.
I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to do free-form slide solo. It's the best thing I've ever done - because I wasn't thinking about it.
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.
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.
I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.
Guys, we are trying to share Unique Jazz Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.
Today's Quote
I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
Quote Of The DayToday's Shayari
उस आंखो से पानी की एक बुंद ना गिए सकी,
तमाम उम्र जिसे मै झिल लिखता रहा ॥
Today's Joke
सन्नाटा छा गया पुरे संसद मे जब राहुलगांधी
ने खड़े होकर जोर से कहा😱
.
.
.जब राष्ट्रगान मे द्रविड...
Today's Status
Evenings allow you to forget the bitter worries of the day and get ready for the sweet dreams of night....
Status Of The DayToday's Prayer
I thank you dear King of glory, for what you have done and what you will continue to do. I...
Prayer Of The Day