As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
Jim Coleman

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
Benny Green

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
Miroslav Vitous

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
Mose Allison

I'm not a jazz singer.
Boz Scaggs

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Charlie Haden

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
Billy Higgins

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
Gerry Mulligan

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.
Andy Summers

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
Rita Coolidge

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
Mose Allison

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.
Justin Guarini

I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
Herb Alpert

I lie around the floor with my cats Billy and Jazz or watch DVDs with my best friends.
Cathy Freeman

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
Billy Higgins

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
Chuck Mangione

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.
Kevin Eubanks

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
Branford Marsalis

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
Dave Van Ronk