My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz..
What about a blues in W, in the key of W..
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat..
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic..
They flat their fifths, we drink ours..
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities..
There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come..
When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz..
I did get to sing at Carnegie Hall when they were made Landmarks! I sang ALL THAT JAZZ with the NY Pops ...what a total thrill..
You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the lis….
The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence..
Jazz is like a telescope, and a lot of other music is like a microscope..
Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own..
Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite..
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics..
I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows..
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, ….
If it has more than three chords, it's jazz..
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music..
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized..
All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it..