Concerts Quote by Norman Granz

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and…

— Jimmy Heath

The jazz clubs wind up having only rich tourists - the kids can't come. If they do, then they spend their entire monthly allotments…

— John Scofield

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

Jazz has to work. It has to play with the audience and with the marketplace. I think that is relevant to business.

— John Kao

I worry more about the marketing that's taken hold since the 70s. The Jazz era, the Swing era, those were huge. Entire decades were…

— Wynton Marsalis

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

— Branford Marsalis

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market…

— Robert Glasper

I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then…

— Andrew Bird

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and…

— Tim Jackson

A respectable-sized audience hasn't really been able to follow developments in jazz since the free jazz movement in the '60s. Some of them can't…

— Harvey Pekar

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

— Sonny Rollins

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

— Lauren Daigle