Band Quote by Jon Gordon

[Manhattan School Of Music] were kind of just getting the jazz program up and going when I first started there. I was 17 in…

— Jon Gordon

Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which…

— Jon Gordon

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

— Travis Barker

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a…

— Charlie Haden

I was in band all the way through high school, and I played in jazz competitions all across Iowa.

— Joey Jordison

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

— Danny Carey

Now, jazz institutions are more readily available for young people, but for me, the institutions were the bands that I was in. When I…

— Dianne Reeves

I went to jazz school. Not to say I'm a great jazz musician, but I studied under some great teachers. It was an important…

— Robert Trujillo

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

— Cy Coleman

I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.

— Mark Ronson

I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any…

— Damien Chazelle

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews