Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Melvin Maddocks
In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.
Chuck Mangione
Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now... →
To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.
Herbie Mann
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Branford Marsalis
I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how... →
Wynton Marsalis
There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.