Blessed Quote by Chuck Mangione

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the…

— Kurt Elling

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

— Jim Coleman

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each of these…

— Herbie Hancock

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.

— Richard Clayderman

I've been listening to a lot of looped jazz stuff: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius.

— Calum Hood

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

— Debra Wilson

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

— Corinne Bailey Rae

I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant.

— Troy Carter

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had…

— Etta James

Grover Washington was my main influence, and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins,…

— Kenny G