#jaz

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#boy #boy scout #congressional #finn #giving

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

#continued #created #field #i #improvisation

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#basis #bass #bass player #could #fact

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man. ↗

— Karl Malone

#even #fame #fortunate #go #grew

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#chick #corea #i #jazz #keith

Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#direct #eastman #ensemble #faculty #formed

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#critics #i #jazz #kenny #most

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#beat #black #created #jazz #man

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

#basically #be the first #cocktail #first #good

Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#every #humans #imperfect #jazz #life