Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.
I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.
In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.
The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.
I think if it wasn't for the blues, there wouldn't be no jazz.
All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.
Just because I'm playing Jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones
Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.
Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.