#jaz

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas. ↗

— Roberta Flack

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz. ↗

— Bela Fleck

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Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

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And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live. ↗

— Ray Brown

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I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that. ↗

— Renee Fleming

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Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America. ↗

— Renee Fleming

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I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. ↗

— Martin Freeman

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