Tag: jazz
Julie Benko and Jason Yeager Go Hand in Hand
"It's not a jazz record. It's not a theater record. It's our record and it's very emblematic of the music that we enjoy listening to and the music that we enjoy creating together."
This Is The Golden Age of Terence Blanchard
"It goes back to that whole thing of find a balance between all of those things, you know, allowing yourself to be in the moment and allowing yourself to be free to respond to things that you may not have thought of."
Jazz Singer Gretchen Parlato Celebrates Sinatra and Peggy Lee
"There's something so powerful about this understatement and intimacy and kind of allowing people to feel all the different facets. It doesn't have to be something obvious, it can be something that's a little bit intriguing."
Terri Lyne Carrington Is Just Getting Started
"The one thing I do know is the rest of my days will be about the mission, the various missions. They're all connected. I can no longer just play because it's fun or take a gig because it pays well."
Saxophonist Ted Nash Revisits Coltrane and Hartman
"I want to try to find the spirituality behind Coltrane's playing. I want to copy the feeling that he had back at this time because that's what's truly sticks out."
Maria Schneider Doesn’t Play It Safe
"That is the process of writing: getting people to ask questions and to take risks and try things they don't know how to do and dare to have it fail."
Pianist Gerald Clayton Is In a Intimate Mood
"Just serve the art, serve the music as best as you can, as honestly as you can, as diligently and thoughtfully and thoroughly as possible, and let the rest take care of itself."
Jazz Musician Ethan Iverson: New Ways of Combining Old Things
"I don't think it's going to be better than John Coltrane, frankly. My generation, we're not going to quite get to what that is. So what we have to do is figure out things to add to it, to make something a little different."
Makaya McCraven Offers a Dose of Something Real
"There has been a framing of jazz in a way for sometime where like it's not for young people. It's not cool. I always want to push back on that one."
