#jaz

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. ↗

— Ken Burns

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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. ↗

— Ken Burns

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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ↗

— Ken Burns

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We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz? ↗

— Ken Burns

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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. ↗

— Nat King Cole

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

— Jim Coleman

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Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. ↗

— Jim Coleman

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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? ↗

— Charlie Watts

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That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul. ↗

— Billy Crystal

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I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

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