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.
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.
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.
I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
As a matter of fact, we put it down because we wanted to be jazz pickers.
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues.
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
I feel guilty because for a long time I didn't allow myself a television, and I used to drop that fact in conversation to impress people. I thought it made me sound dignified. A couple of years ago, however, I visited a church in the suburbs and ther...
Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.
I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.
Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very...
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
