We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.
When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of those things that have jazz elements but also a pop feel.
If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.
By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
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.
If you take 'Nothin' But a G Thang' by Dr Dre, that could also be an R&B record. 'Bonita Applebum' by A Tribe Called Quest could even be a jazz record. 'Bring Da Ruckus,' you gotta call it hip-hop.
I'm very influenced by jazz drummers. I always liked drummers like Roger Taylor, Keith Moon, Ian Paice, John Densmore. I just learned from playing to those drummers.
I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
I like the idea of an eclectic approach, incorporating jazz with other forms and other genres of music.
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
In South Louisiana, every single thing we do is jazz or zydeco.
One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
Most of the people that I learned and experienced jazz with have been with foreign white people, mostly from France. Excluding my family.
