Around Quote by Harvey Pekar

I was very lucky, because when I was at school, I had a great music teacher who would just take out these free-jazz records…

— Alasdair MacLean

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

— Marian McPartland

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

— Rita Coolidge

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

— Rita Coolidge

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were…

— Wallace Shawn

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

— Jan Hammer

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people…

— Brian McKnight

I kept on buying records and listening to them. Finally, I was able to hear the relationship between the jazz improvisers' solos and the…

— Harvey Pekar

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

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz' category. I…

— Leon Russell

The music I like best is kind of frozen in my mind from the Sixties and Seventies. I still listen to the same jazz…

— Don DeLillo