“It's the repetitive thing that brings space. That's one of the things I love secretly about hip-hop. Jazz doesn't have that element. It changes every bar, nothing is ever the same.” SpaceElementsJazzHip HopBarsHipsHopsThings I LoveRepetitive Author:Robert Glasper
“I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.” TogetherCreativityDemocracyElementsHarmonyJazzRhythmMelody Author:Jimmy Heath
“Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.” FeelingsEnergyKnowingGoes OnElementsJazzHip HopHipsHopsClassical Music Author:Robert Greene
“Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!” WayImportantShowsBigsNamesCareersExampleTvsBandElementsJazzRadioSettingBest WaySettingsVarietyHallsConcertsOperaConcreteSoloBroadwayOrchestraFestivalsSymphonyDukesEnsembleBroadway ShowsSymphony Orchestras Author:Billy Taylor
“There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.” WorldI CanUseFilmPleasureOffersBandElementsToolsJazzMusicalBoxesCostumesOrchestraChoirJazz BandTool Boxes Author:Alexandre Desplat
“Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.” CountryElementsInstrumentsJazzWesternFolksAcousticsWestern Music Author:Van Morrison
“The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle, wry-mouthed, or back-handed. It is by turns bitter, agonized, and grotesque. Even in the hands of white composers it involuntarily reflects the half-forgotten suffering of the negro. Jazz has both white and black elements, and each in some respects has influenced the other. It's recent phase seems to throw the light of the white race's sophistication upon the anguish of the black.” EnoughHandsLightSeemsSufferingTurnsBlackWhiteRaceHalfLaughingRichDogElementsJazzForgottenObviousBitterSubtleComposerPhasesAnguishGrotesqueSophisticationWryWhite Race Author:Bix Beiderbecke
“She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.” WantWantedCoursesSpeakSoundHeardNew YorkMetsElementsMusicianDecidedJazzDriversTelephonesTaxiWayne Author:Don Alias
“Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.” AmericaUsedGuyStrongGroupsInfluenceProduceElementsEnglandJazzWestHeavyEastMilesElsewhereSixtyTechnologicalCoastSeventiesEightyChicksBrazilGadgetsSwitzerlandWest CoastEast Coast Author:Gilberto Gil
“I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.” ThinkingTalkingRocksFitElementsJazzNoise Author:Van Morrison
“The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.” DifferentSongSoundElementsUniqueJazzSongwritingZombieClassical Music Author:Paul Weller
“The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.” Love IsSweetPureElementsJazzHip HopHipsHops Author:Amy Winehouse