I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs... →
Kathy Acker
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
Kiran Ahluwalia
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
Herb Alpert
There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the... →
Tori Amos
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.
David Antin