Band Quote by Al Jarreau

As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.

— Fred Frith

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

— Anne Akiko Meyers

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I…

— Miroslav Vitous

Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple of moments…

— Laufey

I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,'…

— Harry Dean Stanton

Player for player, there’s no better working band in jazz than The Cookers.

— Andy Gilbert

My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition…

— Gerry Mulligan

One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is…

— Damien Chazelle

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone.…

— Bobby Vinton

My dad graduated seminary there, and so did (sounds like) Mark Kimball's grandfather. They sang in a quartet together, my dad and Mark Kimball's…

— Al Jarreau

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

— Russell Baker