You need not be a musician
to understand jazz music.
All you need is a sense for it....
To live your life
and miss this music --
that means
to miss one of the best things
life has to give.
(Art Blakey)
miles davis
charly antolini
JAZZ is visual music.
You will understand jazz much better
if you see how it's played,
since jazz emanates from the body,
is done with the body,
with the whole body.
You'd do better to see a musician
enthralled in his playing
than to just listen to him.
(Joachim-Ernst Berendt)
james newton
gerry mulligan
joe pass
Jazz is musical improvisation;
it's the art of the moment.
When recording jazz music
the inspiration and
the inventiveness of this moment
are archived with technical aids,
so that you are able to enjoy it
even many years later.
Photography is jazz for the eye.
(William Claxton)
howard johnson
lionel hampton
The tones are
on the street
and on the roofs,
on the bodies and pianos,
in the pores and diodes,
in the lungs and
synapses,
in the brains and in
the future,
and the jazz musicians
it's they
who pick them up.
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