- Nov 07, 2020
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- Classical Composers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big jazz fan.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great jazz fan.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my songs was on a jazz station for awhile. It was a song that I wrote for a jazz sax player friend of mine, and I sang and played the guitar on it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ trio record I would make sure I'd buy one that did not have a guitar player on it. The sound was awful!
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I practice to Allan Holdsworth or John McLaughlin, but I don't just practice to jazz and jazz-fusion albums. I'll practice to TV theme music - one of my favorites is 'M*A*S*H.' I'll just play along with anything on the TV.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played jazz.
- Miles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love classical jazz.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
All jazz comes from blues. Blues first.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tap's foundation is jazz, just like hip-hop, so relating tap-dancing to rap is natural for me.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a dancer, so I do four hours of dance a week of ballet, jazz, hip hop, contemporary. I also play the piano and I just started learning the guitar.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Broadway, we do love jazz hands.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to shop for old jazz albums.
- Musician
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a jazz musician.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.
- Dissect
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved jazz.
- Barbara
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
- Month
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- Nov 07, 2020
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.
- Nov 07, 2020
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother sang jazz and opera - she even performed at the Apollo on Amateur Night.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
- Chains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.
- Nov 07, 2020
The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.
- Country Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to country music. I listen to jazz. I listen to R&B. I listen to Jimi Hendrix a lot.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
- Mickey Mouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020