#jazz

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

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

— Chuck Mangione

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Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes out on Monday nights. That's been going for 33 years or something. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

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

— Melvin Maddocks

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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

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

— Miroslav Vitous

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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

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