#jaz

Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#broadway show #classical #classical music #coming #country

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#infinity #jazz #love #beauty

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

#american #american music #armstrong #century #did

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

— Ken Burns

#accurate #america #century #curiously #jazz

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

— Ken Burns

#contribution #country #genius #great #improvisation

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

— Ken Burns

#happened #hard #hard time #having #jazz

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

— Nat King Cole

#african american #am #american #artist #because

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

— Jim Coleman

#dizzy #go #i #jazz #jazz players

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

— Jim Coleman

#first #french #french horn #horn #i

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

#i #jazz #need #play #same