Band Quote by Norman Granz

There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and when influential…

— Scott Yanow

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.

— Mose Allison

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

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

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

— Cab Calloway

“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans. A…

— Eduardo Galeano

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people…

— Al Jarreau

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

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

— Brian Stokes Mitchell