The true musician plays what he/she hears. That cannot be a mistake.
Music is a calling that you must bring your best to, whether listening, practicing or performing.
If the bass plays the root, a pianist superimposes a Maj7 built on the 5th and the sax plays the 13th, will hot women notice?
It’s spontaneity that has always characterized Jazz music’s finest improvisers.
Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.
If your dreams don’t scare you they’re not big enough!
While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.
Learn the tunes by playing the masters, learn expression by playing yourself.
Jazz affirms the noblest aspirations of character, individual discipline, perseverance and innovation.
Jazz improvisation is the art of collective negotiated expression.
The more you listen, the more your hear.
What’s tied Jazz together is its foundation in the Blues, a reliance on group interplay and the unique phenomenon of spontaneous improvisation.
A Jazz Diet will make you hipper, thinner, taller, smarter, richer, happier and more attractive to members of both sexes.
Miles Davis and John Coltrane were so cool, if alive today global warming wouldn’t be an issue.
From hard rhythms of Be-bop, the mellow harmonies of Cool, to atonal forays of Free and the Straight Ahead delivery of Modern, it’s all Jazz.
One shouldn’t be in the habit of quoting oneself.
Music is what feelings sound like.
It is better to be felt than to be heard.
The jazziest American contribution to the vocabulary of English is Jazz itself.
Jazz improvisation is an elusive genius.
Practice as if you are the worst, play as if you are the best!
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