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I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B.

— Al Jarreau

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

— Esperanza Spalding

Whether you like punk, grunge, or early rock and roll, there's probably something in there you've been living with your whole life and you…

— Gregory Porter

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

— Christian Scott

When I was a young teenager, it was all about The Clash for me and that sort of English punk stuff. Then the Clash…

— Greg Kurstin

I grew up in the funk, rock and roll, blues and r&b tradition, and I came to this thing we call jazz later. And…

— Hamid Drake

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

— Jasper Fforde

I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.

— Lemmy

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

— Andy Summers

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

— Amiri Baraka

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing…

— Sonny Criss

When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz.

— Jose James