Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.
Jasprit "Sweetu" Kapoor: Bye all! Jaswinder "Jazz" Kapoor: Bye Ball!
Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
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.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city.
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.
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.
In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.
I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.
You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
Who told you I was a musician?
My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.
