Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat..
A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time..
I think music as we know it, is autobiographical..
They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back..
If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet..
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background..
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz..
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning..
[Billy Strayhorn] understood the violin as well as he understood Jazz, and he wrote for the violin as a violin..
If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice..
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, ….
I have a lot of albums yet to do..
The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the s….
Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s..
I don't need time. What I need is a deadline!.
You must own it to play it..
My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker..
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life..
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz..
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, ….
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ball….