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"What are the don'ts of jazz and rock? What are the don'ts and any domain of life? The don'ts is just to please leave your fear at the door."
"This dialogue has been like a jazz trio, because we're just bouncing off and riffing off different voices and listening very closely."
"Henri Cartier-Bresson...his photography always reminds me of jazz music in that way because you have improvisation that is happening with design constraints around it."
"You see, the way I'm able to play hundreds of tunes from memory, and professional jazz pianists can do the same, is that they've memorized the eight chord progressions that are used in 99% of jazz standards."
"The blues is the foundation of jazz music, and so one of the most common chord progressions you will see in jazz standards is your blues progression."
"In jazz, we like dissonance, and it's really interesting."
"Jazz is such a wide genre that can encapsulate so many different moods, from soft and smooth ballads to music that's much more energetic and primal sounding."
"Jazz really is the great American musical form."
"Jazz sets you up with a great basis to work from and gives you a good understanding of the language."
"Many of the ideas, obviously jazz is very centered in improv, so the other way for sure."
"It's not very often that we see movie scores composed by jazz musicians, but it's even less often that we see movie scores by jazz musicians that were improvised."
"If you become known as a jazz guitar player or a jazz man first you see you'll have longevity, your career will live a long time."
"It definitely grew on me... it started to evoke more of the jazz soul type feel."
"Other genres of music are heard by the ears but jazz is heard by the heart."
"I was already interested in jazz from about the age of 10."
"Jazz has a rich tradition and at the same time it's very open for creativity."
"The entire score is a unique mixture of jazz swing and lounge styles and it remains the most legendary film score in comedy movie history."
"Jazz to me is that thing that if people tapped into it more."
"He's like a great jazz guy who's got complete control of his instrument."
"I'm actually playing this without looking at the lead sheet like I usually do."
"Swanky jazz music makes me feel like we're in an old noir piece."
"There was pain and gentleness everything jammed into each number."
"The story of jazz is the story of great musicians overcoming adversity only to face more."
"The story of Buddy Bolden is the story of jazz."
"He was the first true virtuoso of jazz music and a man whose tragic life story would be echoed by the greats who followed in his footsteps."
"The story of Buddy Bolden serves as a kind of creation myth for the genre of jazz."
"Jazz is an actual language. It's basically how to get from one note to another note through other notes."
"It's not even about the hitting the notes when you're seeing them, it's just about you're just playing the notes."
"Miles Davis was like a rock and roll star but in jazz."
"And beside those freer jazz moments Hatfield in the North do find space for properly tender moments."
"Coltrane himself was a driven man in a tragically short creative life."
"He's a combination of different things he has elements of jazz yes among some folk he is a truly versatile."
"Playing jazz trumpet is like learning to write. At first, your ambition outstrips your skill."
"Believe me, if you're looking to intro with Nina Simone or if you're just looking for a very lovely jazz album with great vocals and great Tunes you cannot go wrong with this you can absolutely not go wrong with this."
"Jazz by nature is denser than dense, that's the beauty of it."
"A Love Supreme is an expression of ultimate love."
"Playing Jazz requires chords and improvising, creating tension and resolution."
"Throw all that jazz stuff I grew up on all that jazz out the window."
"For the next 50 years elements of jazz could be heard in just about every new genre of popular music."
"A lot of the music y'all listen to today? Some music that you don't even realize is connected to jazz all that started right here baby."
"Take the A Train by Duke Ellington... I just love the infectious energy and excitement of it."
"This is probably the quintessential jazz album..."
"Now we're going to go into jazz phrasing and syncopation this next step is about jazz phrasing or syncopation."
"Listening to jazz music while you do kind of menial tasks makes your whole life feel like a movie."
"I'm building up six hours of jazz, you know what you do bro, you sit there and you put the blanket on you."
"Jazz is, has always been, and remains America's classical music."
"You can't just go boom, boom, boom. It's like jazz, timing."
"Miles Davis is one of the greatest musicians and musical innovators in the history of this country."
"The individual is supreme in jazz."
"Hayao Miyazaki incorporates jazz into his Studio Ghibli films, like 'Howl's Moving Castle'."
"Reverence for jazz and the people of color who built the genre drips from every second of this movie."
"Spirituals and blues merged to form the foundation of jazz, changing American music."
"Jazz is such a rich music... it definitely represents something that is progressing towards the future."
"It was such a special time in New Orleans, and I really do think that the Jazz captured New Orleans and had a piece of its heart."
"Jazz is the happiest, the most conducive to dancing, to movement, to life of any music anywhere."
"It truly does smell like you are walking in a jazz club."
"One of the great really great jazz rock albums of the 70s."
"Spiritual Jazz incorporates philosophical and spiritual themes into jazz music."
"This is the Jazz that I like the high gold it's so very good for its price point it's absolutely delicious."
"Jazz is Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker drop the mic. That's it."
"This is actually the album that got me into jazz. Art Blakey's 'Moanin' is a classic bop album."
"One of my absolute favorite jazz records. I love jazz guitarists. I know people are about the blowers, they like the...you know, the sax men, but I really dig Kenny Burrell."
"From the ever suave of Duke Ellington to the irrepressible Louis Armstrong, together they created a musical revolution."
"But there's a time when you don't need the mask anymore. You catch that tune at the heart of things. You play it, then other people play it with you, and you don't have to be alone anymore. That's jazz."
"He embodies all that is jazz, all that is music. One of a kind. National treasure."
"As always, please love like jazz, be as strong as Tyson."
"I mean, they're all good, they're all great and for those of you that don't know jazz is doing the one-man show him on the stage all by himself doing the Bronx Tale playing all those different characters that were in the actual film."
"A man with jazz is always welcome."
"Writing's like jazz and you could do it you just have to do it your way."
"Straight pool is like jazz. There isn't one right way to do it, as long as you're interested and you do something, we'll do it well, whatever it is that you're doing."
"Elvin Jones is one of the most influential drummers in jazz history, a drummer who influenced other drumming Legends."
"Jazz was only a part of the whole story."
"The Crawford Grill was the Gathering Spot to listen to Jazz in the city Franco Harris has proudly called home for five decades."
"Jazz can detect signs of movement over great distances, even in total darkness."
"Reinhardt was greatly admired by and played with some of the top American jazz musicians of the time."
"I never thought watching someone play jazz could be so intense, but the finale of this movie... it puts you on the edge of your seat."
"It's one of the most popular Jazz guitars in history."
"Lieutenant James Reese Europe became the center of a community of African-American jazz clubs in Paris."
"I pursued playing, I wanted to improvise, I wanted to be a jazzman."
"Jazz was the most dancey out of all these genres."
"This is smooth jazz, this is a grown and sexy crowd. Okay? We are all of a certain age. This ain't Coachella, this is old cello."
"Jazz is an insane record... it's just a mix of just so much going on."
"Jazz really lended itself to the chip tune scene and still does."
"Hiphop is indebted to jazz. That's not up for debate."
"A magnificent love letter to the art of jazz."
"If you want to hear your favorite hits from Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, or so many others, you can come here."
"Chameleon joined Watermelon Man in the pantheon of jazz Classics."
"This is like just some weird tension. I love that the jazz is overlaid and they're yelling, and you can't tell like if he's serious or not. I love it. Yeah, I gotta move here. Beautiful."
"The real romance is going to be them playing jazz together."
"I miss Tuesday nights at the Federal, you know they used to have the jazz night."
"Jazz was in a phase of looking back to its small group origins but Louie had only been marginally involved in this until 1947 when the promoter Ernie Anderson went looking for Joe Glaser with a thousand-dollar check in his hand."
"Jazz is the most original aesthetic form to emerge from the United States but it has not always been the most popular."
"One of the sweetest combinations of jazz piano playing and vocals."
"John Coltrane, probably the second most known name in jazz."
"Thelonious Monk stands alone in the history of jazz."
"Fletcher Henderson is unbelievably important in the development of big band music."
"Jazz kind of flips that on its head and they write the melody first and then you can kind of put any chord under it it only has to really make sense to you."
"People assume jazz musicians just sort of make it up as they go along... you just want to see it, your friends should take a look at courses on the bass and just go home and noodle."
"Improvisation in jazz is synonymous with the music itself."
"Jazz originated on the banks of the Mississippi."
"Why is there improvisation in jazz music? Because it's fun."
"Name a famous jazz trumpet player. Louis Armstrong."
"There was a hypnotic repetitive thing which is actually groundbreaking for jazz at the time."
"Relive the roots of jazz each evening with live musicians performing brilliant classics and telling tales of cruise jazz legends."
"...you can catch a showing of Five and Dime, a jazz group performing all the hits."
"James Bond, the whitest secret agent of all time in a black jazz bar."
"Louis Armstrong is the father of jazz, is the most important musician of the 20th century."
"I did this movie La La Land and then everyone was saying that I saved Jazz."
"Anyway, I'm just super freaking jazz right now."
"...jazzers not like bebop when bebop came around, and then once things went modal, you had bebop guys, 'Oh no, that's too... bebop is real jazz, you know?'"
"Jazz can be quite a forbidding thing...but you can get a long way just with three or four basic chord types."
"...it's a really common voicing again to start getting into jazz and maybe playing some jazz standard chord progressions."
"Jazz is the mother of everything."
"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could hear any jazz song and almost instantly know what the chords are?"
"This is exactly what you want when you come to jazz in Paris."
"There are no absolutes in this that's one of the things that I absolutely love about jazz it's um it's creativity it's it's spontaneity it's in the moment and it's from what's inside of you."
"Kind of blue, it's not just Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Cannibal out of the John Coltrane are all on there."
"This is a nice spot to come on in and enjoy live jazz performances at night."
"Nina Simone was an archive, and I watched in that theater by myself this woman majestically and flawlessly just flow between jazz and avant-garde and socially powerful thoughts."
"Seven flat 5 chords are often used in jazz standards, giving a distinct sound flavor."
"If you ever doubted that the dream of an immediate language that is somehow the correlate to jazz and experience, that's your dream living on."
"Jazz taught us how to improvise and soul."
"Jazz was dead, the music of the museum."
"Ellington at Newport, recorded live in 1956, is one of the most important live albums in jazz history."
"I think Bebop at the time was almost like a punk attitude within Jazz of We're the new lions and we are making this new music form."
"My favorite jazz record of all time is Art Blakey's Moanin'."
"Seven chords are generally known to be a bit more jazzy and a bit more complex."
"Jazz sweet always seems composed, cool-headed, never too high or too low"
"The beauty of jazz is that there are so many great people who On Any Given solo can manifest something you never thought of."
"Tabloids were just as inevitable as Jazz, they are feared because they are jolting the pillars of conservatism."
"Ray and I broke the ice when we started talking about our mutual love of jazz."
"Jazz is kind of the window into a lot of things about the American experience."
"1969, the modern Jazz Quartet, space post-bop modal."
"This is amazing by the way, that's one of the best modal, that maybe is the best modal jazz record of all time."
"Jazz is attributed to New Orleans."
"In the 1940s, Queens played a monumental role in the jazz scene producing greats like Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald."
"Jazz musicians are people who make stuff up on the spot."
"If it sounds like jazz and it looks like jazz then maybe it is jazz."
"Jazz is about freedom and negotiating your freedom with the person next to you."
"I think the thing is let's just say we love jazz it's an amazing art form and I know it when I hear it."
"What was that like playing with Charlie Parker? Must've been incredible."
"He had an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz."
"Love trumpets, love the whole arrangement. It was such a rich sound, a jazzy, sultry kind of vibe."
"The Blue Note is legendary and important to me for many many reasons."
"Being completely honest, we're not big Jazz fans and we didn't particularly have high hopes for this night, but we have to say it was absolutely fantastic."
"This new jazz type of music that becomes popular in black areas of New York, Harlem, eventually other areas, this can now start to be broadcast in people's homes."
"It's like jazz music, the most important notes are the ones that they don't play."
"Now because of its excellent warmth, it can also get a great jazz tone."
"I am Buddy Bolden. That was addressing it, the freedom in the music."
"The brass Magnolia bar is a New Orleans style jazz club lounge."
"Jazz is freedom of expression with a groove."
"We're jazz band so we can't, we're not managing every second of what we're playing, we trust each other and we go with the decisions we make."
"You say you want to save jazz. How are you gonna save jazz if no one's listening?"
"You're holding on to the past, but jazz is about the future."
"We were really committed to bringing back jazz to the city of Philadelphia."
"Cream was basically a jazz band. We never told Eric that, but that's another story."
"Don't play the butter notes... that means go on stage and say what the hell you want to say."
"If you go through these exercises, you will see massive improvement in your jazz playing."
"I'm starting to understand like a little bit, like these different eras of jazz."
"These are all really great records to start with."
"Epitomizes what jazz is all about, really."
"He was a really beautiful, articulate, flowing player."
"Coltrane changes actually originated from John Coltrane writing the substitutes over the tune 'Tune Up' by Miles Davis."
"This vibrant landscape had been steadily evolving since the early 1950s, primarily fueled by the burgeoning interest in jazz within post-war Britain."
"I am here to teach you everything that I know about modern jazz and improvisational piano."
"Sometimes you'll just see a C major chord, but in jazz, especially older jazz, you can add a six to it or a major seventh; either one's gonna sound good."
"Jazz is largely improvised, 99.9% of the time."
"You like jazz? I do actually like jazz, I like jazz a lot."
"You can't play jazz unless you know the blues."
"If there was no Haiti, there would be no Louisiana. If there was no Louisiana, there would be no New Orleans. If there was no New Orleans, there would be no jazz."
"Jazz music does something that no other tradition does. It teaches us how to live in a democracy."
"What Barry Harris does, instead of harmonizing a major scale, he's harmonizing a major bebop scale."
"Jazz is the Great American art form."
"What Jazz does is it takes that idea of the American dream of Western liberal democracy and it creates a music form which is unlike classical music."
"In Jazz, you are totally allowed to be yourself."
"When you hear great jazz, what you are hearing is love, equality, freedom embodied in music."
"We have to ride the wave of the eternal now, that's what we have to do, and that's what jazz is."
"Musicians, jazz musicians are brilliant because they know all the chords, they know all the notes."
"Jazz music is a reflection of your life."
"Ride cymbal, it's part of a drum kit usually. I love using a brush on this; it gives a very film noir, jazzy kind of vibe."
"Make a mistake, play it twice, it's Jazz."
"Django Reinhardt is the Godfather of gypsy jazz, which is this very acoustic-based form of jazz."
"I do think you're cool, and your tunes are very smooth and jazzy."
"The greatest jazz pianist of our generation, right? Humbly titled, which isn't too far from the truth honestly."
"My grandmother loved people like Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington."
"Jazz has very organic origins which materialized out of the melding of African-American harmonies and rhythms."
"Jazz represents one of the greatest musical innovations to come out of the 20th century."
"I for one, as a classical musician and composer, hope classical and jazz can someday embrace each other more freely again."
"Jazz isn't just an oral language, it absolutely needs to be part of any jazz musician's practice routine."
"Learning to sing a solo is so important to getting the grammar of the music into your ear."
"Playing solo jazz piano is one of my huge interests."
"I hope I was of help with your first steps into jazz chords."
"Well, Jazz Harmony not only is adding the seven but doing this out of the key two to five you know all the time to target the next chord."
"My dad... he was a jazz freak, and that was always playing in the house."
"Oh, I love that picture. That reminds me of my favorite night, Sunday night, when I go see my jazz friends."
"The ethics of jazz and the values of Buddhism are similar and apply to my life on every level."
"The wisdom of Miles Davis and the ethics of jazz."
"It's allowed, and jazz players do it all the time."
"Most jazz songs have more sophisticated chord progressions and melodies than rock songs."
"I've been fortunate enough to be around phenomenal musicians because I work with jazz guys and they're the best musicians you're going to find."