Adults Quote by Scott Yanow

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

— Norman Granz

Childhood, all me influences were, say, between the time that I can remember, which would have been about three years old to the time…

— Bill Ward

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

Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s…

— Wynton Marsalis

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew…

— Chaka Khan

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties,…

— Sonny Rollins

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

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where…

— Jelly Roll Morton

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

— Walter Becker

'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band'…

— Artie Shaw

When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't…

— Illinois Jacquet

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The…

— Page Hamilton