#jazz

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#music #people

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#experts #gets #jazz #like #new

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#duke ellington #ellington #fell #hearing #i

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#i #jazz #music #new #new orleans

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#ever #history #i #jazz #love

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#heart #jazz #note #play #risk

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#become #call #else #go #going

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#criticized #davis #delved #embraced #fully

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#band #big #big band #brother #brothers

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#almost #america #asking #dialect #embodies