Date:	31-Aug-1999 00:13:50
From:	Mike (neely@internetwis.com)
	Contrary to the general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs!" Edgar Varese, from "20th Century Music" by Joan Peyser Edgar's not jazz but it's certainly applicable.

 

Date:	31-Aug-1999 05:48:56
From:	Win Hinkle (winhink@bellsouth.net)
	Do you know how to make a million dollars in the jazz business? Start with 3 million. -unknown

 

Date:	31-Aug-1999 08:31:56
From:	Ignatz
	"He was playing rattlesnakes on a hotplate." Hale Smith, describing Eric Dolphy.

 

Date:	31-Aug-1999 08:54:51
From:	Zimbo
	"The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians." George Bernard Shaw

 

Date:	31-Aug-1999 14:47:16
From:	Michael Ricci (mricci@visionx.com)
	Here are a few that I posted on the AAJ home page a while back... "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple." --Charles Mingus "I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know." --Miles Davis "It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing." --Pat Metheny "There is jazz in our music but there is a funk element too. People have labeled us organic acid jazz but we aren't too keen on that. I prefer Sanford and Sun Ra!" --Billy Martin, drums / percussion (MMW) "Music washes away the dust of every day life." --Art Blakey "I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini." --Paul Desmond "Man, if you have to ask what it (jazz) is, you'll never know" --Louis Armstrong "life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise..." --George Gershwin "It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz startsor where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line." --Duke Ellington "Wrong is right." --Thelonious Monk "Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life." --Lester Bowie

 

Date:	02-Sep-1999 16:54:11
From:	Ken Dryden (kenjazz@vei.net)
	"Don't just do something, stand there!" Jim Hall to a student who was a bit too overzealous in his playing, quoted in Jazz Anecdotes by Bill Crow.

 

Date:	04-Sep-1999 11:54:41
From:	Paul Abella (Pabella3Aaol.com)
	"If you don't live it, It won't come out of your horn"- Charlie Parker

 

Date:	04-Sep-1999 18:38:39
From:	angela (jazzangel25@yahoo.com)
	"Keep Your Ears Open" -Paul Abella :)

 

Date:	07-Sep-1999 12:31:36
From:	Colin
	You are on every single one of these pages - over and over and over again. - Robert Rouda

 

Date:	07-Sep-1999 19:27:41
From:	Ralph
	So what?

 

Date:	09-Sep-1999 17:56:00
From:	Paul (the jazz punk) Abella (Pabella3@aol.com)
	I thought that was over...

 

Date:	09-Sep-1999 20:03:32
From:	Saul W.
	Onward, please. Back to the topic.

 

Date:	09-Sep-1999 20:28:33
From:	Dale Winn (WinnD@internet.com)
	"The buoyance cannot be attributed to any single element in Lester's style, but it seems likely that one potent factor in the preservation of Lester's freshness is the fact that he was one of the first soloists to appreciate the value of momentary silences, or the use of the tacit as a musical effect. . . . Economy is one of the fundamentals of the Lester Young style. Not even in later years, when all followed in the wake of Charlie Parker's double-tempo exuberance, did Lester ever forsake his stringent economy." Benny Green, from "The Reluctant Art" pg.107 (chapter on Young)

 

Date:	10-Sep-1999 21:47:13
From:	Michael R.
	"The music is a journey, the journey is endless." -SUN RA

 

Date:	18-Sep-1999 14:47:53
From:	Sal Spaghettio (Salspag@students.tex.com)
	"On `Weatherbird,' both Armstrong and Hines playfully employ subtle hesitations and anticipations in phrasing and engage in ambitious flights beyond the written score - if, in fact, there was a written score at the session - all with a comfortable command several steps beyond the scope of the early New Orleans pioneers. This was jazz, pure and simple, freed both from the shadow of ragtime and the dictates of dance music." Ted Gioia, from "The History of Jazz" page 66

 

Date:	24-Sep-1999 14:39:26
From:	Judson O. Maynard (jazzbo112@aol.com)
	John Coltrane, Nobody owns the music, it flows through us all.

 

Date:	30-Sep-1999 14:56:23
From:	John Kavanagh (mcfarvan@glinx.com)
	Frank Zappa: Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny. (bear in mind that he said this in the 1970's)

 

Date:	12-Oct-1999 16:43:51
From:	g
	kjh

 

Date:	16-Oct-1999 16:50:23
From:	john motheral (edwin@iswt.com)
	Duke Ellington was reported to have said. "i made my mind up a long time ago that i wasn't going to let these musicians of mine drive me crazy"

 

Date:	16-Oct-1999 16:50:53
From:	john motheral (edwin@iswt.com)
	Duke Ellington was reported to have said. "i made my mind up a long time ago that i wasn't going to let these musicians of mine drive me crazy"

 

Date:	17-Oct-1999 14:58:38
From:	Alexander the Not so Great (pianist)
	"How influential was (Bill)Evans? A survey of forty-seven jazz pianists conducted by Gene Lees in 1984 found that Evans ranked second to only Art Tatum as the most influential pianist in the history of jazz keyboard music; it is worth adding that Evans ranked first when these same players were asked to choose their personal favorite among jazz pianists." Ted Gioia, from his book "The History of Jazz"

 

Date:	18-Oct-1999 04:20:45
From:	Ken
	A jazz musician dies and goes to heaven. He is told "Hey man, welcome! You have been elected to the Jazz All-Stars of Heaven--right up there with Satchmo, Miles, Django, all the greats. We have a gig tonight. Only one problem--God's girlfriend gets to sing." (sorry, couldn't help it)

 

Date:	19-Oct-1999 04:35:14
From:	Jim Smith
	"LISTEN" Jon Hendricks

 

Date:	23-Oct-1999 13:44:28
From:	Alexander (Alex@internet.com)
	"Morever, a number of Tristano's most daring initiatives from the late 1940s and early 1950s - involving atonality, total improvisation, overdubbing and other unusual devices - could now be seen to foreshadow key developments in the later history of jazz. In this regard, Lennie Tristano was something of a Nostradamus of the bop era: when the future of jazz finally arrived, it bore a striking resemblence to his personal vision of how it 'should' be." Ted Gioia, page 249, from "The History of Jazz"

 

Date:	23-Oct-1999 15:27:28
From:	Wally Tadpole
	"Thelonious Monk works so exclusively with the basic materials of jazz that, in the best moments, his playing almost becomes a working definition of that music. Monk's pianistic strength lies not in complex executive feats but in a sensitive, vividly incisive deployment of those basics: time, accent, metre, space." MAX HARRISON, from an essay on Monk in: "Jazz on Record" (Hanover Books)

 

Date:	23-Oct-1999 22:36:47
From:	Simone (Simone@internetfrancais.com)
	"As a pianist he kaleidoscopic, encompassing the entire history of jazz piano and much of European classical music as well, which blended with his own innovative harmonic and rhythmic ideas, allowing him to weave a style that is essentially a school unto itself . . . He possessed a touch capable of evoking the entire emotional spectrum, from quiet introspection to joyous exuberance . . . " Frank Kimbrough and Ben Allison, from their liner notes to HERBIE NICHOLS: THE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE RECORDINGS.

 

Date:	24-Oct-1999 01:24:02
From:	tim (timonsax@hotmail.com)
	I found this quote in "Jazz Portraits an eye for a sound" put together by Tim Motion. Shelly Manne gave an interviewer his definition of jazz musicians: "We never play anything the same way once."

 

Date:	24-Oct-1999 09:16:19
From:	Simone
	"He was kaleidoscopic . . . (above quote about Herbie Nichols) oops

 

Date:	24-Oct-1999 09:24:58
From:	Simone (again)
	THE WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET: "They brought together a great deal, these four. When one heard them in person it was almost as if some of the pieces were being made up whole, as if the head melodies, collective textures, solos, all were improvised. And their polyphony was as basic and as uncompromising as it had been in New Orleans seventy-five years before. That all-of-a-piece quality for what is written and what is improvised in performance was of course something that jazz had been seeking for a generation." MARTIN WILLIAMS, from "The Jazz Tradition" (page 257)

 

Date:	28-Oct-1999 20:04:28
From:	Pippy
	" Whitney Balliet once perceptively wrote of Konitz 'His solos are full of secrets.' " Art Lange (taken from his liner notes to Lee Konitz's "The New York Album")

 

Date:	30-Oct-1999 12:33:32
From:	Aldo
	"Lennie Tristano told of sitting at a table in Birdland with Parker when (Bud)Powell walked by and said, 'You know Bird, you ain't shit now.' As he continued to put down Bird unmercifully, Tristano chided him with, 'Bud, don't talk that way. Bird's your poppa.' At this point Parker said to Tristano, 'Lennie don't pay any attention. I dig the way he plays.' From: IRA GITLER's liner notes to the CD "Bud Plays Bird."

 

Date:	30-Oct-1999 21:51:52
From:	Brian Lebakken (lebo12@hotmail.com)
	I believe Duke Ellington said this, "Playing bebop is like playing scrabble with all the vowels missing..."

 

Date:	02-Nov-1999 20:35:40
From:	E|iot (esem@sympatico.ca)
	(Maybe not the exact words) Coltrane: "Music keeps flowing in my brain so fast. I just don' t know how to end my solos... " Miles: "Get the horn out of your mouth"

 

Date:	16-Nov-1999 07:40:32
From:	ChriS (cslawec9@idt.net)
	From Pat Martino: "Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now."

 

Date:	16-Nov-1999 21:08:37
From:	Ignatz
	"Jazz is freedom - you think about that." Thelonious Monk, quoted in Tom Piazza's book "Blue Up And Down" (St.Martins Press)

 

Date:	15-Dec-1999 08:15:24
From:	Ralph Reno
	"I bought every one of his (Armstrong's) records from 1927 till around 1936. From then on, he repeated and became more of an entertainer. But for those ten years, he was a great creative artist, you know. Even though he never had any special arrangements for himself. Mostly, he played just stock arrangements. But in every one of those three minute records, there's a magic moment somewhere. I learned how to love music from him. Because he loved music, and he did everything with love and care. So he's my main influence I think." Gil Evans, 1986, in an interview with Ben Sidran. From "Talking Jazz: An Oral History."

 

Date:	19-Dec-1999 22:01:48
From:	Dan Sermeno
	Lee Morgan in reference to a question as to what constitutes good music.... "It's either hip or it ain't"

 

Date:	19-Dec-1999 22:36:15
From:	JahNa (JahNa@vitelcom.net)
	"...it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual therom. It's not. It's feeling." Bill Evans (piano player) excerpted from www.billevans.org

 

Date:	21-Feb-2000 06:51:51
From:	Jerry Warfield (JWarfield1@cs.com)
	Two from T. Monk: 1. "Well shut my mouth wide open" 2. "That's a horse of another complexion"

 

Date:	23-Feb-2000 07:45:44
From:	Hal
	"I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini." "We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet,' and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh,' which amounts to the same thing." Paul Desmond

 

Date:	05-Apr-2000 00:37:57
From:	Chris Klockau (cklockau@swbell.net)
	"Too many dances are bad for men in their forties, especially in the atmosphere of jazz bands. Jazz is simply heart disease and insanity set to music." Dr. C.S.Thompson, medical officer of health at Deltford, England, in a lecture on "Keeping Fit Until Ninety", March 1926.

 

Date:	26-Apr-2000 22:32:12
From:	Chris Klockau (cklockau@swbell.net)
	"He was known for playing music so compelling and seductive it could unhook a bra". written about his fictional character Eddie Carnes by David Huddle in the novella, Tenorman.

 

Date:	10-May-2000 08:40:20
From:	Chris Drukker
	These are a couple of popular quotes that have much meaning to this art form and it's related "honest" counterparts. Canonball Adderley- "Hipness is not a state of mind, It's a fact of life!" Duke Ellington- "There are two types of music... one that is good, and one that is bad

 

Date:	12-May-2000 13:25:37
From:	Alison
	"I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age." Paul Desmond (the closing sentence to his liner notes for his 1963 album "Take Ten," a non-Brubeck quartet, with Jim Hall on guitar)

 

Date:	21-May-2000 11:16:53
From:	Holly
	"There would be certain nights, maybe once a week, when it was absolutely staggering. To the extent where I would sit there comping, for him, listening to him play, and think 'Where did that come from? What is it that's coming out of this guy? You mean I have to play a solo after that?' Now that didn't happen all the time, you know, but when it did it was like he'd suddenly got control of the world." Russ Freeman, pianist for Chet Baker. From the liner notes for - CHET BAKER QUARTET: FEATURING RUSS FREEMAN.

 

Date:	25-May-2000 08:50:29
From:	Tikie (TikiT@hotmail.com)
	"To put it simply, ragtime syncopation that started the world dancing at the turn of the century changed the marching beat into a dancing beat by accenting the normally weak beats in a measure - the second and fourth - and removing the stress on the normally strong beats - the first and third . . .Although syncopation had rarely been heard in Western music before the advent of ragtime, it was extremely common in African music. Ragtime developed as an Afro-American adaptation of the marching band music of German and Italian immigrants that still flourishes throughout the South and Southwest . . . where piano ragtime took root." Grover Sales, from - JAZZ: AMERICA'S CLASSICAL MUSIC (pg. 28).

 

Date:	26-May-2000 19:11:49
From:	Woody Riffman
	"I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony" --Pop Soda

 

Date:	29-May-2000 11:03:20
From:	Zippy (zippyz@hotmailtex.com)
	"Hell is full of musical amateurs." George Bernard Shaw (playwright & music reviewer)

 

Date:	29-May-2000 22:00:17
From:	Wendell
	"That night Ipsell played like a blue salmon in heat, surging through the changes like he was on the very brink of extinction." Ralph Raltny, from: "The Bugsy Ipsell Story" (pg.204)

 

Date:	01-Jun-2000 20:54:37
From:	Charles B. (CharB@hotmail.com)
	"I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was." Paul Desmond - from the liner notes of the CD "Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan: Two Of A Mind"

 

Date:	18-Jun-2000 14:03:12
From:	Ned
	"My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want." Booker Little (from the liner notes of "In Our Lifetime." A Dave Douglas CD.)

 

Date:	27-Jun-2000 00:07:54
From:	Chris LaRoche (cronoss@sclegacy.com)
	"IF you could understand everything I said, you'd be me" - Miles Davis

 

Date:	27-Jun-2000 00:10:25
From:	Chris LaRoche (cronoss@sclegacy.com)
	"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. " - Miles Davis

 

Date:	04-Jul-2000 11:56:23
From:	Bepo
	"With a singer like Ella, when she sings 'my man has left me,' you think the guy's going down the street for a loaf of bread. But when Lady sings it, man, you see the bags are packed, the cat's going down the street, and you know he ain't never coming back." clarinetist Tony Scott, comparing Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, from Nat Hentoff's "JazzTimes" column.

 

Date:	16-Jul-2000 03:16:31
From:	Becky G (diamonte2@hotmail.com)
	"All music is folk music, I ain't never heard a horse sing a song." Louis Armstrong "JAZZ - - If you have to ask, you'll never know." Louis Armstrong

 

Date:	16-Jul-2000 03:31:20
From:	Ashley (ashleykinch@hotmail.com)
	"it only has three buttons" -said by me when I chose to play the trumpet over the clarinet

 

Date:	27-Jul-2000 18:14:20
From:	H.C.
	"Jazz is pat your foot." Count Basie

 

Date:	04-Aug-2000 01:44:00
From:	carla (carlavalyko@hotmail.com)
	"if you see something in someone else taht you like- just steal it"--- BB KING

 

Date:	08-Aug-2000 18:48:26
From:	Wes (Wespa@yahoo.com)
	"Imitate, assimilate, and innovate." Clark Terry, the great trumpet man

 

Date:	08-Aug-2000 20:57:52
From:	Chico
	"I'm riveted to where I am when I play - to the people around me. I hear everything the piano and bass and drums are doing, and I lay the right notes on them, and each of those notes has to affect the following one. It's a lovely experience when it works out with a rhythm section. It's reaching out and touching one another. It's a nice place to be, and you can go anywhere from there." Lee Konitz (from Whitney Balliett's book: "Jelly Roll, Jabbo & Fats: 19 Portraits in Jazz")

 

Date:	08-Aug-2000 21:00:31
From:	Chico
	"It's the hidden things, the subconscious that lies in the body and lets you know: you feel this, you play this." Ornette Coleman (from Whitney Balliett's book)

 

Date:	12-Aug-2000 08:26:41
From:	Ignatz Welk (ignatzw@yahoo.com)
	Check this out! "Parker himself, compulsively fast and showy, couldn't play four bars without resorting to a pecularly irritating five-note cliche from a pre-war song called 'The Woody Woodpecker Song.' His tone, though much better than that of some of his successors, was thin and sometimes shrill . . . I fancy, however that Parker was improving at the time of his death, possibly as a result of meeting Bechet in France (Bechet was always ready to instruct the young)." Philip Larkin, described by the editor of the excellent anthology of jazz writings entitled "Reading Jazz" as: "Larkin, Britain's most famous postwar poet and misogynist, was for several years jazz critic for the Daily Telegraph."

 

Date:	12-Aug-2000 08:32:26
From:	Ignatz Welk, again
	How about this one: "It was with Coltrane, too, that jazz started to be 'ugly on purpose': his nasty tone would become more and more exacerbated until he was fairly screeching at you like a pair of demonically-possessed bagpipes." Philip Larkin (hey, to be fair, Larkin was a good writer about early jazz through the swing era, but it does appear he had some problems with modern jazz)

 

Date:	12-Aug-2000 15:32:12
From:	Jon
	"If everyone is in a frisky spirit, the spirit gets to me and I can make my trombone sing." The great New Orleans musician Jim Robinson

 

Date:	13-Aug-2000 10:56:45
From:	Holly (hollywa@internetva.com)
	"In point of fact, traditionally the highest praise given a blues musician has been the declaration that he can make a dance hall rock and roll like a downhome church during revival time. But then many of the elements of blues music seem to have been derived from the downhome church in the first place. After all, such is the nature of the blues musician's development that even when he or she did not begin as a church musician, he or she is likely to have been conditioned by church music from infancy to a far greater extent than by blues music as such." Albert Murray, pg. 27 from his wonderful book: "Stomping The Blues."

 

Date:	13-Aug-2000 11:02:53
From:	Holly
	"There are blue devils, and there is also the Holy Ghost. . . what the blue devils of gloom and ultimate despair threaten is not the soul or the possibility of everlasting salvation after death but the quality of everyday life on earth. Thus the most immediate problem of the blues-bedeviled person concerns his ability to cope with the commonplace." Albert Murray

 

Date:	13-Aug-2000 11:08:04
From:	Holly
	"It is accordingly precisely the blues musician's capacity to generate merriment that downhome church elders have always condemned first of all. They have never taken such incantations and percussion as being anything even remotely defiant or in any way antagonistic to any demons whatsoever. On the contrary, to them it the Devil's very own music." Albert Murray

 

Date:	19-Aug-2000 09:48:15
From:	Cee Cee (ceecee@prodigy.com)
	"There is something dreamy about Lester [Young]. . . a nonchalant accent in the execution which makes his music seem as if it were spoken confidentially to each of his listeners." Hughues Parnassie from his book "The Real Jazz"

 

Date:	21-Aug-2000 21:46:56
From:	Arnold
	"Jazz is little music and not big music, in the same sense as lyrics are little poetry and epics big poetry; pottery little art and cathedrals big art. Limitation of scope and relative smallness of scale do not make an art less good or true or beautiful. They do, however, put certain artisitic achievements out of its reach . . . " Eric Hobsbawm [essay: "The Musical Achievement"]

 

Date:	26-Aug-2000 03:14:50
From:	Billy (willb85@usa.net)
	"I think playing jazz is about playing really long notes, and fast repeated patterns, but only three different ones." -Kenny G

 

Date:	26-Aug-2000 08:02:36
From:	Sam (samuelr@hotmail.com)
	"The other loner [in addition to Gil Evans] among arrangers is George Russell . . . He emerged from the jazz revolution of the forties. During the fifties, Russell created his 'Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization,' the first work deriving a theory of jazz harmony from the immanent laws of jazz, not from the laws of European music. Russell's concept of improvisation, 'Lydian' in terms of medievel church scales yet chromatic in the modern sense, was the great pathbreaker for Miles Davis' and John Coltrane's 'modality.' " from "The Jazz Book" by Joachim E. Berendt, pg. 412-413

 

Date:	31-Aug-2000 21:40:21
From:	Max DeLucas
	"If it smells like cologne, leave it alone!" Ol Max here, when asked about his opinion of Kenny G.

 

Date:	23-Oct-2000 13:52:22
From:	ROBERT WALTHER (rwalther@remico.com)
	About free jazz: "Yeah, it's free...free of harmony, melody and rhythm." Outside jazz: "That's where it should be played...outside of a jazz club." Lou Donaldson(quoted from memory, liner notes to Sentimental Journey?) Music consists of three components - rhythm, harmony and melody. That's why rap is not music - it only has rhyme and rhythm (and little of that). UNKNOWN SOURCE.

 

Date:	08-Nov-2000 01:45:32
From:	Becky (beckygilmour@hotmail.com)
	Hey, stop bashing Kenny. He really swings! -BG

 

Date:	08-Nov-2000 01:46:49
From:	Ashley (ashleykinch@hotmail.com)
	"Yeah, from a rope!" -J. Knowler when told Kenny G really swings...

 

Date:	20-Jan-2001 01:27:24
From:	Billy (willb85@usa.net)
	"I'm fat." -Kenny G

 

Date:	19-Feb-2001 18:51:55
From:	William Pedoty (trunkooo@webtv.com)
	I was down 52nd Street at the Onyx Club. It was about 1945 after the war. Ben Webster was playing with Tony Scot and Bill D'Arango. I used to go in there often and Ben and I got a little friendly. Anyway, I'm with a girl and Ben comes down and hands me a slip of paper. Naturally everyone in the joint is looking at Ben, and I guess everyone there was wise. I open the slip of paper and it says, "If you suck smile." He did a nice number on me, and he broke the place up. Ben, one of the greatest.

 

Date:	03-Mar-2001 08:51:08
From:	Hal
	"Playing music is just like having a home." Warren "Baby" Dodds

 

Date:	20-Mar-2001 12:50:30
From:	Jim Young (youngj@carmengrp.com)
	Phil Woods, in radio program with Billy Taylor from Washington's Kennedy Center, on people stealing his licks: "If you can hear it, you can have it."

 

Date:	26-Mar-2001 13:47:46
From:	Holly (hhmail@hotmail.com)
	"Any truly revolutionary artist is invariably accused of intellectualism. People who are not touched by a new form of sensibility always blame it on the new form and never on their own unreceptiveness." Andre Hodeir, pg.15, from "Toward Jazz"

 

Date:	26-Mar-2001 18:24:06
From:	Junior Jr. (JRJR@ntelos.net)
	"Hodges?" Tony Bennett asked. "The best singer in the world - what else?" Singer Tony Bennett, in an interview, commenting on the Ellington Orchestra's alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges.

 

Date:	06-Apr-2001 19:36:55
From:	Simone (simone@francais.com)
	". . . it was me, or maybe Fats (Waller), who sat down to warm up the piano. After that, James took over. Then you got real invention - magic, sheer magic." Duke Ellington talking about the pianist James P.Johnson

 

Date:	17-May-2001 19:38:04
From:	Mark hughes
	Marylin Monroe in Some Like it Hot Yeeeaaahhh, Jazzzz reeeeaaallll HHHHOOOOTTTTT!

 

Date:	06-Jun-2001 19:44:42
From:	Zippy (cosmos@hotmail.com)
	"It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes." Charlie Parker - from the liner notes of "Charlie Parker:The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings 1944-48"

 

Date:	18-Jul-2001 01:10:23
From:	Geoffrey Balasoglou (geoffb@ihug.co.nz)
	'Music is an addiction' - Miles Davis

 

Date:	03-Aug-2001 17:10:47
From:	Penny
	"No one ever erected a monument to a critic." Jean Sibelius

 

Date:	26-Aug-2001 08:29:18
From:	RR Stanley
	Pianist Marian McPartland once wrote an article about Paul (Desmond) for me at Down Beat. It must have been about that time that I first met him. She asked Paul about his penchant for (fashion) models. "Well," he said to her, "they'll go out for a while with a cat who's scuffling but they always seem to end up marrying some manufacturer from the Bronx. This is the way the world ends, not with a whim but a banker." Gene Lees pg. 247 from his book: "Meet Me At Jim And Andy's"

 

Date:	26-Aug-2001 12:46:19
From:	Alan
	When tenor sax star Ben Webster told him (Duke Ellington), " Governor -- you've got to pay me more money! You're working me to death!" Ellington replied softly, "But Ben -- I can't afford to pay you what you're worth -- nobody can." Time-Life Giants of Jazz, album liner notes

 

Date:	29-Aug-2001 13:56:44
From:	Luca (lucafumis@btinternet.com)
	There's something like "You've practiced all the scales, studied all the theory, ... now forget everything and start plyin' music" by Miles Davis I'm not sure about it. Anyone's got the right version?