Band Quote by Al Jarreau

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

— Dianne Reeves

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

— Esperanza Spalding

The umbrella of jazz is so big and so wide . If you don't like saxophone, try a vocalist, if you don't like vocalists,…

— Gregory Porter

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

— Norah Jones

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're…

— Herb Alpert

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

Jazz is my adventure.

— Thelonious Monk

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

— Mulgrew Miller

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

— Lester Bowie

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

— Apollo Robbins

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

— Bob Iger

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

— Norman Granz