Quotes About Jazz

In the early days of jazz, it was ensemble music: everybody playing all together. Nobody really stood out.

You know, another jazz drummer, Ed Thigpen, who played with Oscar Peterson way back - it was the first time I ever heard rivets in a cymbal. And then I heard that Chico Hamilton had them too, and I went, 'Oh, that's it. I'm taking that for my sound.' And it worked well on 'Riders On The Storm,' so that's one thing.

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

Black innovators were the force behind a burst of cultural creativity, from the poetry of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance to the crossover dance craze of the Charleston to jazz, the soundtrack of the age—"the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile," as Hughes called it.

For me, jazz offers so much freedom in the way the music can be interpreted. It's natural to me. It's where I feel most free.

I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.

My life has been going in ways I never could have dreamed of - doing the closing celebration for the Olympic Games and being appointed the creative chair for jazz at the L.A. Philharmonic. So I've just decided I'll go with my flow and be very prepared.

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.

Jazz onstage is a very intimate exchange between everybody that's onstage.

I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.

For the last day or so there had been a certain amount of coolness in the home over a pair of jazz spats which I had dug up while exploring in the Burlington Arcade.

Peter Senge shares a similar illustration about a jazz ensemble. "There is a phrase in jazz, "being in the groove," that suggests the state when the ensemble "plays as one." These experiences are very difficult to put into words—jazz musicians talk about them in almost mystical terms. The music flows through you rather than from you."2

You see it in jazz musicians, who never rehearse exactly what they do, but just seem to know when to take center stage, when to fade into the background. When jazz artists were compared with classical musicians in brain function, they showed more neural indicators of self-awareness.15 As one jazz artist put it, "In jazz you have to tune in to how your body is feeling so you know when to riff.

Quando os músicos de jazz foram comparados com os músicos clássicos quanto a funções cerebrais, mostraram mais indicadores neuronais de consciência de si mesmos. Conforme disse um músico de jazz, «no jazz, é preciso sintonizarmo-nos quanto ao que o nosso corpo está a sentir, para sabermos quando avançar para um solo».

Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional, and the emotion in the music is built in, whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.

On distingue, en gros, deux catégories d'amateurs de jazz, les calmes et les agités.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

My method of writing is to take the most basic kind of line and improvise on it. After all, I am the child of the culture which created Jazz.

Jazz was way out front, clearing a path into a new era of truly free music, where the only limits were the musician's own consciousness and imagination, a music that cut across all boundaries yet still made perfect sense and swung like no music had ever swung before.

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