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If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.
John Stowell plays jazz, but he doesn’t use any of the clichés; he has an incredible originality. John is a master creator.
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.
People forget that the same man who did 'Star 80' and 'All that Jazz' also did 'Pardon Me Miss But I've Never Been Kissed.'
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.
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.
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.
Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.
Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.
There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.
At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.
I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill.
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.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.
I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
I was really learning my craft as a jazz singer and working with some great players and all, really growing and feeling my wings.
Lately, Ive been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.
Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.
Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!
I'm a person of change and I must be honest to my artistry and my creativity. That's part of the word 'jazz'... it's an adventure.
Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.
I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.