Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music. — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play. — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
Here's our shtick line to describe our music: It's our garage band attempt at our appreciation of jazz improvisation through the reality… — John Popper Copy Share Image
There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Jazz is a music that really allows a person to express his deepest self, his most personal self - Africa being the… — Harold Land Copy Share Image
Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
A major component of jazz is improvisation, which forces you to stay in the moment because you never know what will be… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
“visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within… — Greg Thomas Copy Share Image
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image