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You can't just play a house set for four hours at the Sheraton. You have to be creative and throw in some jazz, some Latin music, and really mix it up.
Mija
Music
You
Creative
Jazz
Latin
Some
Throw
Hours
House
Mix
Up
Just
Really
Play
Four
Set
In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.
Mike Figgis
Music
History
Mirror
Jazz
Living
Way
Classical
Classical Music
Small
Through
Development
Terms
Gotten
End
The History Of
Form
While
Centuries
Cycle
Exploring
Original
Original Music
Now
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
Mike Gordon
Myself
Band
Jazz
Other
Imitate
Others
Way
Something
Tendency
Catch
Always
Am
Bands
Jamming
Much
Jazz Band
Each
Riffs
I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.
Mike Stoller
Young
Jazz
Kid
Musician
Ability
Piano
Greater
Always
Very
Than
Taste
Wanted
Young Kid
Far
Jazz Musician
Playing
If I wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny's. I'm also a singer, so maybe I'd be singing at dark jazz clubs in Brooklyn.
Miranda Rae Mayo
Entertainment
Human Being
Dark
Miserable
Singing
Jazz
Would
Would-Be
Brooklyn
Entertainment Industry
Also
Singer
Industry
Human
Maybe
Being
Clubs
Serving
Pancakes
I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.
Miroslav Vitous
Good
Before
Jazz
Extremely
Ways
Pretty
Because
Arrived
Years
Five
Much
Europe
Prepared
Four
Played
Here
Playing
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.
Miroslav Vitous
Listening
Jazz
Bass
Bass Player
Bass Players
Our
Ears
Something
Could
No-One
Along
Until
Instrument
Got
Doing
Came
Place
Realized
Really
Used
Who
Play
Player
Players
Started
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
Mose Allison
Jazz
Classic
Lot
Blues
Sang
Players
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
Personality
Invention
Jazz
Melodic
Instrumental
Concerned
Improvisation
Essentials
As Far As
Far
Swing
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
Mose Allison
King
Jazz
Classic
Main
Like
Armstrong
Always
Nat King Cole
Been
Louis
Louis Armstrong
Jack
Influences
Sang
Who
Players
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
Mose Allison
Time
Jazz
Boom
New
Lot
York
Goin
New York
Then
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole
Jazz
Because
Am
American
Artist
African
Famous
African-American
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
Nat Wolff
Life
Age
Father
My Life
Jazz
Constant
Pianist
Been
Surrounded
Theme
Early
Early Age
I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
Nat Wolff
Life
Myself
My Life
Important
Jazz
Say
Musician
Would
Vital
Does
Important Role
Am
However
Role
Fan
Jazz Musician
Avid
Describe
Play
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
Nat Wolff
Music
Good
You
Musicians
Free
Jazz
Live
Gifted
More
Takes
Study
Like
Courageous
Learned
Equipped
Quartet
Lot
Just
Good Acting
Acting
Jazz Music
Moment
Prepare
Compare
Dad
Actor
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
Natalie Cole
Love
Time
Jazz
Approach
Had
Genres
Rock
Forties
Pop
Deeply
By The Time
There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
Neil Peart
Jazz
Drumming
Bullies
Blood
Rip Rig + Panic that I joined, they were really influenced by jazz and blues and punk. So I think what happened from punk, which was kind of DIY, was that it created a kind of creative place that was kind of without limits, in a way.
Neneh Cherry
Creative
Punk
Jazz
Think
Panic
Way
Kind
Rip
Joined
Without
Limits
Were
Blues
Influenced
Happened
Place
Which
Created
Really
Rig
I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.
Nicole Beharie
Together
Recording
Jazz
Background
Musician
Would
Restaurant
Some
Cash
Vocals
New
Occasionally
Juilliard
Get
York
Get Together
Done
Just
Artists
New York
Used
Jazz Musician
Fun
Play
Both the nationalists and the communists disapproved of jazz and feared it. They thought it would weaken people's resolve to fight off the invasion. And most Americans know, China did ban all Western music for about 30 years, starting in 1949. This is where it started.
Nicole Mones
Music
Fight
People
Thought
Jazz
Resolve
Weaken
Would
Feared
About
Invasion
Both
Know
Most
Years
Off
Western
Ban
American
Did
Where
China
Communists
Started
Starting
Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
Nigel Kennedy
Love
Cats
Jazz
Bach
Top
Him
Which
Why
So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and that is their base. And then they choose to extemporize on that and go into a contemporary world.
Nigel Lythgoe
People
World
Jazz
Dancer
Dancers
Bit
Classical
Throwing
True
Feel
Like
Contemporary
Contemporary World
Sort
Got
Ballet
Go
Report
So Many People
Mean
Then
Choose
Many
Base
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
Nile Rodgers
Me
Partner
Style
Jazz
Bernard
Develop
Sort
Who
Helped
Actually
Funky
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
Nina Simone
Music
People
Black
White
Jazz
Classical
Classical Music
Dirt
Most
Means
Play
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
Norah Jones
Club
Jazz
Restaurants
Performer
Trained
Mickey
Mickey Mouse
Mouse
Clubs
Played
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
Norman Granz
Jazz
Philharmonic
Kind
Only
Were
Years
Albums
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