Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions..
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking..
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music..
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts..
I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relate….
To work is to feel alive..
The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing..
Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for all who c….
Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America..
I am the worlds laziest writer..
I never sing a song the same way twice..
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America..
Everybody in Germany was for the -German cause. But then, after the war ended, when I heard the first Glenn Miller sound on the radio and these fanta….
The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation..
Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in the history of….
Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America..
Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend..
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there..
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your music as a way….
He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'..
Instrumental music can spread the international language..