The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
A beat is a moment in the life a groove.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'
He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.
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.
But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on improvisation. The rhythms, the personal involvement, all of this is part of the jazz experience.
What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.
Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
Trombone virtuoso and innovative composer, Papo combines the best of jazz and Latin music to create a genre that is unique and wild. He's redefined Latin jazz!
The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.
Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing locked under glass like all the other dead things that were once considered artistic.
Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.
Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.