Approach Quote by Herbie Hancock

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

— Esperanza Spalding

For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion…

— Jose James

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

— David Sanborn

Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You…

— Sonny Rollins

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

— Jelly Roll Morton

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

— Jan Garbarek

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

— John Scofield

Jazz is something that's constantly changing. Its sole purpose is to let people improvise, to let them solo differently each time they play. And…

— Allan Holdsworth

Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the…

— Michael Snow

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play…

— Jimmy Chamberlin

Jazz is such a living art form. It happens right in the moment. You weave a story by changing certain elements and components.

— Dianne Reeves

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

— Jose James