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I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely…

— Richard Grossman

Growing up playing jazz and improvising has had a big impact on me, and it translates into my music.

— Stephen Bruner

I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical music. Both…

— Laufey

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

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

— Herbie Hancock

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

— Kenneth Rexroth

I was trained in jazz, which I love.

— Jesse Andrews

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making…

— Amy Tan

I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and…

— Lizz Wright

I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat,…

— Gregory Porter

Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

— Common

I wasn't a jazz player, but a classical musician, and I improvised arrangements of popular songs using classical motifs.

— Nina Simone