What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.
Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.