And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. – Elvis Costello
In 1962 I wrote for ‘Jazz News,’ using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the ‘e.’ – Manfred Mann
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don’t have to think about it too much. – Chris Barber
I’m saddened to see that everyone’s pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can’t be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn’t mean that we can’t listen to jazz. – Don Bluth
I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. – Chuck Mangione
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. – Marc Ribot
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! – Christian Scott
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I’ve named it Justine. – Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Jazz really does try to include everything. It’s always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. – Madeleine Peyroux
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop. – Natalie Cole
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. – Esperanza Spalding
What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what’s going to happen next. – Cyrille Aimee
We are serious about our music here in Philadelphia, and jazz has meant a lot to this city. – Michael Nutter
Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. – Gary Burton
My roots and Victor’s are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they’re tremendously exciting players. – Chico Hamilton
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. – David Amram
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it’s what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people’s households. – George Benson
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there’s a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that’s possible with the instrument. – Gary Burton
My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz. – Dan Hicks
We didn’t go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn’t want to be like any of the other bands. – Michael Giles
It’s a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians. – Damien Chazelle
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk – that is confrontational. That’s just a part of the language of jazz – at a certain point. – Matthew Shipp