Band Quote by Jon Pareles

I never thought that the music called "jazz" was ever meant to reach just a small group of people, or become a museum thing…

— Miles Davis

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

— Kurt Elling

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

I have a sketch of an idea and I never really talk about: perhaps do another jazz record, but with other elements involved.

— Dianne Reeves

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh.…

— Al Jarreau

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition…

— Gerry Mulligan

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its…

— Tim Cahill

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

— Steve Lacy

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran…

— Joe Sample

Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand…

— Wynton Marsalis