Albums Quote by Abbey Lincoln

I met some wonderful people, who introduced me to some other musicians... I then made a little record called 'Worrisome Heart.' It was a…

— Melody Gardot

Gospel, soul, jazz, and R&B were what I felt connected to as an artist.

— Raye

I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations…

— John Oates

Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then…

— Cornel West

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

— Tom Curren

I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great…

— Charles Lloyd

Music was a means through which I could meet people and sort of begin the process of exploring who I was or who I…

— Carrie Brownstein

When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting things in…

— Wynton Marsalis

I worked in a band a long time. As we got older, we became more aware of soul and jazz.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of…

— Gloria Gaynor

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers,…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

— Dave Navarro