Amazing things Quote by Ray Brown

Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and…

— Oscar Peterson

[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you…

— Clark Terry

Is there one blues guy who was the most sophisticated and influential, like Duke Ellington or Louis Armstrong in jazz? Was it Muddy Waters,…

— Steve Miller

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right…

— Freddie Hubbard

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.

— Jonny Lang

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured…

— Jelly Roll Morton

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of…

— Alexis Korner

When you think blues, you think BB King. Even a young kid can look at a picture of BB King and say, 'the blues.'…

— Joe Bonamassa

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

— Alan Jackson

He was like candy; artificially sweet.

— Anonymous

“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues…

— Amanda Petrusich

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

— Ritchie Blackmore