We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk ro...
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.
My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a ce...
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on for too long. Yes, I had certain teachers that really inspired me, like Danny Barker, and John Longo. And I had no idea that I would have a...
Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won't ever be a jazz drummer because he's more interested in looking good and being screamed at.
It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
