Archie Quote by Kamasi Washington

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

— Billy Sherwood

My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.

— Jim Coleman

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

— Roy Harper

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

— Mose Allison

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

— Damien Chazelle

My dad was a drummer for The Mamas & The Papas, and his mother was in the jazz world, so music has always been…

— Ashley Roberts

I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays and put…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

My dad was into jazz, so there was a lot of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington playing in the house, but also a lot…

— Arlo Parks

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

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The…

— Page Hamilton