My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz..
Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken ….
Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself..
The worst crime is faking it..
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18..
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio..
There's nothing wrong with it. It's only a word. What's in a name? Nothing! Cats say, "Call me Muhammed so-and-so. ".
I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke..
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you ….
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz..
What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience..
I learn something new every day..
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles..
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce..
Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers..
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s..
Listen to her voice, don't look at her..
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants..
I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field..
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..
Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music..