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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it. Aaron Neville

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The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk to whatever else. And in a way, 'Check Your Head' ended up being like one of those pause-tapes. Ad-Rock

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I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music is a much more disciplined genre. Adnan Sami

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Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. Ahmad Jamal

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You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz. Ahmet Ertegun

You White Jazz Record Some Like Know Chicago Really

I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet. Al Jarreau

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Every good gospel singer you can hear is a scat singer; they're just using different syllables. There are a lot of jazz singers out there, and more coming out of the churches. Al Jarreau

Good You Jazz Every Churches Out More Singer Singers Gospel Coming Hear Lot Just Different Using Syllables

I'm this strange kind of fusion of jazz, pop, and R&B. Al Jarreau

Strange Jazz Fusion Kind Pop

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is. Al Jarreau

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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is expected to contribute to the orchestration in progress, not simply to execute the score as it is written and rehearsed. Albert Murray

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Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family. Alexis Korner

Family Me Jazz Left Blues Away Pulled

When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It's kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I've been writing with some friends. Alia Shawkat

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In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'. Alvaro Enrigue

Key Free Jazz Interpretation Air Boom City John Composed Brought Economic Clear Read Mexican Mexico Mexico City Where Manhattan Transfer Modernization Novel Growth Portrait

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem. Amanda Seales

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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that. Amiri Baraka

People Old Jazz Records Liked Always Blues Race

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career. Amy Ray

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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. Amy Tan

I would say that jazz is my own language. Amy Winehouse

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