I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
Jasper Fforde
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It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.
John Coltrane
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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Nigel Kennedy
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My dad was really into avant garde jazz: Archie Shepp, John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.
Kamasi Washington
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I feel like Europe is way more advanced. They're way more open to the definition of jazz. More cool. They're like, 'You want to do that? Awesome. You want to work with a rapper? Awesome.' They're not, 'Aah, it's not real jazz.'
Jose James
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Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
Thelonious Monk
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Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.
Andra Day
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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
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The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.
Irvin Mayfield
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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
Jonathan Frakes
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No, I don't know how to get young people to start listening to jazz again. But I do know this: Any symphony orchestra that thinks it can appeal to under-30 listeners by suggesting that they 'should' like Schubert and Stravinsky has already lost the battle.
Terry Teachout
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Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
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I like everything, jazz and classical, and all over the spectrum.
Mark Pellegrino
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
Gary Carter
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The beauty of jazz is that it can accommodate all styles. You can take jazz and put rock in it, and it's still jazz.
Jon Batiste
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall
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Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
John Lasseter
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I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I got Benny Goodman records and Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding, and that kind of stuff. I really was not a jazz guy at all, but I knew some of those names.
Leon Russell
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I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
Flea
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Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.
Diane Ackerman
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I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.
Ray Manzarek
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After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
Robert Quine
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Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.
Kenny G
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