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It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.
Kurt Elling
Rare
Band
Jazz
Pretty
Steady
Full-On
One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.
Kurt Elling
Jazz
Singer
Jazz Singer
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
Kurt Elling
You
Musicians
Half
Jazz
Philosophy
Studying
Well
Read
Because
Doing
Been
Chicago
Sitting
Asleep
Hard
Jazz Musicians
Night
University
Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.
Kurt Elling
Me
First
Sense
Jazz
Gave
Scene
Johnson
Piano
Piano Player
He
Just
Really
Karl
Hard
Swung
Player
Belonging
You don't show respect to Frank Sinatra and his great example by trying to sound exactly like him. You show it by sounding exactly like you, and that's the way jazz has always progressed as an art form.
Kurt Elling
Art
Great
You
Respect
Example
Jazz
Way
Great Example
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Exactly
Sinatra
Like
Him
Always
Sound
His
Art Form
Trying
Form
Show
My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep.
Labrinth
Music
Home
Me
Country
Jazz
Type
Everything
Fuse
Possible
Brothers
Never
Make
Always
Sounds
Came
Mix
Normal
Very
Any
Confusing
I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about that.
Larry Gagosian
Happy
Jazz
About
Never
Lincoln
Been
Very
Just
Center
Board
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Laura Benanti
Art
Great
Jazz
Think
Great American
Musical
Musical Theater
Musicals
Pie
Got
Art Form
American
Form
Dying
Theater
Apple
Apple Pie
Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.
Lauren Daigle
Hope
Club
Jazz
Someday
Tour
It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.
LeRoy Neiman
Life
Big
Band
Few
Jazz
Stars
Difficult
Saw
Completed
Favorite
Recognizable
Has-Been
Possibly
Onto
Knew
Perform
Feet
Big Band
Been
Current
Size
Hold
Biggest
Measures
Many
Paintings
Nearly
Portraits
Whether I do jazz or R&B, there are always complaints. I would just listen to the complaints about what I do instead of celebrating what I do, and that I'm different and in my own lane. It took a while for me to just ignore the doubts.
Ledisi
Me
Own
Jazz
Took
Complaints
Would
About
My Own
Instead
Always
Celebrating
Listen
Just
Different
Whether
While
Lane
Doubts
Ignore
I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.
Lee Konitz
Music
Listening
Jazz
Enjoy
Classical
Classical Music
Lot
Very
Listen
Much
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
Lee Ritenour
Music
You
Jazz
Bass
Pianos
Dead
Very
Going
Depends
Subtle
Tunes
Acoustic
Standard
Play
Differently
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
Lemmy
Music
Me
Jazz
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Boring
Never
Liked
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Anything
Anything Else
Early
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
Lester Bangs
Hate
Jazz
Clark
Admit
He
Like
Whether
Stanley
Playing
As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.
Lindsay Mendez
Thought
Picture
Own
Jazz
Nina
Nina Simone
Totally
Could
Adult
Songs
Became
Covered
Lot
Fitzgerald
Same
Listened
Ladies
Loved
Them
Moment
Paint
Cool
Each
Differently
Interpreted
Ella
Ella Fitzgerald
I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.
Little Simz
Myself
Soul
Rapper
Jazz
Bit
Rap
Hop
Kind
Dive
More
Main
Open
Main Thing
Taking
Like
Also
Obviously
Genres
Hip
Hip-Hop
Up
Influence
Different
Experimental
Whether
Different Genres
Electronic
Thing
I call myself a singer-songwriter influenced by the gospel and jazz tradition. Naturally, because of my lifestyle and love for nature, there's a lot of folk and Americana there because that's just my life.
Lizz Wright
Life
Love
Myself
Nature
My Life
Jazz
Folk
Lifestyle
Singer-Songwriter
Call
Gospel
Because
Tradition
Lot
Just
Influenced
Naturally
Americana
For me, I just want to sing about life. And since I come from a spiritual background, I turned to jazz, because I feel it's still sacred, like gospel. It's serious music, but it allows room to sing about so much other stuff as well.
Lizz Wright
Life
Music
Spiritual
Me
Jazz
Other
Background
About
Sacred
Feel
Stuff
Since
Come
Like
Sing
Well
Gospel
Because
Still
Just
Want
Room
Turned
Much
Serious
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.
Lou Rawls
Time
Soul
Gone
Jazz
Think
Right Time
Something
Through
Gospel
Accepted
Doing
Been
Done
Blues
Public
Pop
Means
Full
Right
Spectrum
When I was in college, I had a jazz radio show. I called it 'Excursion on a Wobbly Rail,' after a Cecil Taylor song. I used to run around the Village following Ornette Coleman wherever he played.
Lou Reed
Song
College
Jazz
Coleman
Run
Following
Had
He
Excursion
Around
Wobbly
Cecil
After
Wherever
Taylor
Used
Show
Radio
Village
Rail
Played
The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.
Lucinda Williams
You
Song
Old
Singing
Jazz
Down
Worried
Saw
Kind
Would
About
Voice
Perfect
Singers
Make
Always
Were
Fit
Sitting
Just
Blues
Them
Much
We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.
Lukas Forchhammer
Soul
Jazz
Most
Genres
Hip-Hop
Mix
Lot
Pop
Agree
I've always had a love for music, and it developed as I learned jazz, blues, and gospel. And I performed with jazz singers in New Orleans.
Luke James
Love
Music
Jazz
Had
Developed
Performed
New
Singers
Learned
Gospel
Always
New Orleans
Blues
Orleans
I don't really get the same kinda romance that I would get from, like, jazz. And even to a lesser extent to rock 'n roll. Rock 'n roll has a romance to it - how can I put it? A very vulgar romance, but still a romance; whereas hip hop has more facade.
Lupe Fiasco
Jazz
Hop
Kinda
Would
Facade
More
Put
Like
Vulgar
Rock
How
Hip
Hip-Hop
Still
Rock-N-Roll
Very
Get
Roll
Same
Romance
Whereas
Really
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Even
Extent
Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.
Lynn Nottage
Music
Writing
Before
Jazz
Intimate
Composer
Performer
Robinson
Scott
American
List
Listen
While
Create
Apparel
Start
Loaded
Set
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