A_Passion_for_Jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "#Music should not have any mandates. #Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like Jazz."

• Wayne Shorter
  #sax #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "Simmer down, let me hear the sound of them feet."

• Buddy Bolden
  #jazz #cornet @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Buddy Bolden, Eddie Duran, Charles Moffett. Andrew White & Dave Bargeron born 9/6
musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Peter Bernstein, Fred Hess, Veryan Weston, Larry Ridley, Roy Brooks, James Dapogny & Onaje Allan Gumbs born 9/3
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♫♪ "#Jazz attracted me because I found a formal perfection & instrumental precision I admire in #classical #music."

• Django Reinhardt
  #guitar @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♫♪ "The #Blues & #Jazz will live forever. So will the Delta & the Big Easy."

• Jack Nicholson
  @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ 2023 marks the eighth annual celebration of #Audiophile Day, which continues to grow in recognition.
#musicians @jazz

https://audiophileday.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/AudiophileDay

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "9/10 of #Jazz playing is #improvisation. For this, gaining a profound harmonic #music background is essential."

• Horace Silver
  #piano #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Horace Silver, Clifford Jordan, John Zorn, Sherrie Maricle, Laurindo Almeida, Pablo Ziegler, Emil Richards, Phil Napoleon & Walter Davis Jr born 9/2
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "Never practice more than 3 or 4 hours a day. No one can concentrate longer than that & you must spend the rest of your time learning about #life & #love & #art & all the other wonderful things in the world..."

• Arthur Rubinstein
  #jazz #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "Silence is what makes #music #sexy. I just move blocks of #silence around. The notes are an afterthought."

• Nicholas Payton
  #jazz #trumpet @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "Everything I've learned, I've learned with #feeling being the generating force."

• Bill Evans
  #jazz #piano @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "#Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect #expression of any #emotion."

• Luciano Pavarotti
  #opera #singer #tenor #jazz @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "You know, I wanted something more than just being thought of as a #musician, period."

• Art Pepper
  #jazz #sax #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Art Pepper, Boney James, Gene Harris, Willie Ruff & Teri Thornton born 9/1
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Just remember to make best #music you have the ability to make. If you do that, you are a successful #musician.
#jazz #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Wilton Felder, Gunter Hampel, Cooper-Moore, Herman Riley, Nate Birkey, Edgar Sampson & Stefano Battaglia born 8/31
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♫♪ "I don't mind being the butt of a joke if it's a funny joke."

• Kenny G
  #smoothjazz #sax @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♫♪ "Diz is it... whenever I want to learn something I go & listen to Diz."

• Miles Davis
  #jazz #trumpet @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "I have to be a star like another man has to breathe."

• Sammy Davis Jr
  #jazz #singer #dance @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ You will make a name for yourself in the field of #entertainment.
#music #jazz @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 9 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "However it goes, I'll just keep playing. That's where the basic satisfaction is at."

• Kenny Dorham
  #jazz #trumpet @jazz
  • https://www.apassion4jazz.net/quotations3.html

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Kenny Dorham, John Surman, Rodney Jones & Anthony Coleman born 8/30
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "In Kansas City joints ran 9pm-5am. Pay was a $1.25 a night but somebody special like Count Basie could command $1.50."

• Charlie Parker
  #jazz #sax @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me.) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor."

• Dinah Washington
  #jazz #singer @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "#Music is your own experience, your own thought, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music, but man there's no boundary line to #art."

• Charlie Parker
  #jazz #sax @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Charlie Parker, Dinah Washington, Bennie Maupin, Doug Raney, Jerry Dodgion, Ernesto Rodrigues & Bobby Carcasses born 8/29
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

Artist Mantra
"In order to live a #creative #life, one must overcome the #fear of being #wrong."
#art #music #jazz @jazz

https://www.apassion4jazz.net/artist-mantra.html

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "The minute you make a mistake - that's #improvisation!"

• Barry Harris
  #jazz #piano @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it."

• Tony Williams
  #jazz #drums @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life."

• Woody Herman
  #jazz #sax #bigband @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Kenny Drew, Larry Goldings, Cecile McLorin Salvant & Michael Gregory Jackson born 8/28
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "Surrender your whole being to a note & gravity disappears."

• Carlos Santana
  #jazz #rock #guitar @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "Gotta be original."

• Lester Young
  #jazz #sax @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Lester Young, Med Flory, Claudia Villela & Alice Coltrane born 8/27
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♫♪ "Everyone is working who should be."

• Bill Evans
  #jazz #piano #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♫♪ "If #music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound."

• Keith Jarrett
  #jazz #piano @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "The #Blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a #feeling to swing."

• Jimmy Rushing
  #singer #musicians @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "We all played bad before we played good."

• Branford Marsalis
  #jazz #sax #musicians @jazz
  • https://www.apassion4jazz.net/music-mastery.html •

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Branford Marsalis, Jimmy Rushing, Andrew Lamb, David Finck, Peter Appleyard & Dori Caymmi born 8/26
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "This will be our reply to #violence: to make #music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever."

• Leonard Bernstein
  #piano #symphony #broadway @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "#Jazz #music is interior decoration."

• Wayne Shorter
  #sax @jazz
  • https://www.apassion4jazz.net/quotations10.html •

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "#Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now."

• Pat Martino
  #guitar #musicians @jazz
  • https://www.apassion4jazz.net/quotations7.html •

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Pat Martino, Wayne Shorter, Leonard Bernstein, Keith Tippett, Michael Dease, Michael Marcus & Charles Fambrough born 8/25
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "There is only one reason to do #music. Music is a deep language to share with people."

• Mimi Fox
  #jazz #guitar @jazz
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A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ Happy #Jazz B-day Mimi Fox, Buster Smith & Claude Hopkins born 8/24
#musicians @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♪♫ "I know what a sextet is... but I'd rather not say."

• D C DowDell
  #jazz #piano @jazz

A_Passion_for_Jazz, 10 months ago to jazz

♫♪ "Have you seen this cat?"
Miles
#jazz #trumpet #musicians @jazz