America Quote by Gabor Szabo

Mel Brooks came to see Oh, Hello in L.A. Mulaney and I had a meeting with him, and we invited him to come to…

— Nick Kroll

No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the…

— Nick Kroll

You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in…

— Cab Calloway

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

— Carla Bley

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

— Gary Lucas

Bobby Braddock is great.

— David Berman

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

— Pat Metheny

I grew up in the Great Depression, and the jazz artists and Dixieland musicians were at the core of our communications and enjoyment. They…

— Harry Belafonte

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester…

— Flea

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

— Dianne Reeves

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