“Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.”
Lionel Hampton
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.”
Miles Davis
“By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.”
Duke Ellington
“This man is so underrated. People talked about Miles Davis as the harbinger of jazz rock, but Paul Butterfield was doing this fusion between jazz and blues in a different way. Butterfield had a Detroit rhythm section: Teddy Harris, Rod Hicks and George Davidson. They recorded a couple albums with Butterfield.”
Jim Gallert
“I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.”
Chuck Mangione
“Both men and women have masculine and feminine elements. We've just been concentrating on the masculine elements in jazz coming out for too long. It's time for feminine elements to emerge.”
Herbie Hancock
“Not just in jazz, I think in politics too. Men have gotten to the point where we're not doing a good job anymore. It remains to be seen whether we really did a good job in the past.”
