Able Quote by Al Jarreau

I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set…

— Dianne Reeves

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson,…

— Jimmy Scott

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

— John Otto

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

— Bob Iger

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina…

— Lindsay Mendez

My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like it. It went on…

— Wynton Marsalis

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

— Dave Van Ronk

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

— Kurt Elling

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

— Elle Varner

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The…

— Page Hamilton

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above…

— Branford Marsalis

For me, I listened to a lot of female jazz artists. And of course, the Motown and Philly sounds, all that stuff was very…

— Philip Bailey