Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain... →
Wynton Marsalis
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's... →
The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means... →
My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility.... →
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.
Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand... →
I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my... →
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all... →
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance... →