“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.” FirstsBigsEyeFatherSoundRecordsPlayerListeningGrewBandGrew UpEarsJazzCaughtBrownIllinoisTenorsColtraneBrownies Author:Meshell Ndegeocello
“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.” MotherFatherHouseGrewGrew UpJazzOpera Author:Chaka Khan
“I was 16 when I came to New York. I had graduated to a tenor banjo in the school jazz band, and it was kind of boring - just chords, chords, chords. Then my father took me to a mountain music and dance festival in Asheville, North Carolina, and there I saw relatively uneducated people playing great music by ear.” PeopleKindSchoolFatherSawsNew YorkBandMountainEarsJazzBoringFestivalsChordsGreat MusicCarolinaUneducatedNorth CarolinaTenorsMusic And DanceBanjosJazz BandAsheville Author:Pete Seeger
“Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.” Has BeensAgeFatherConstantJazzThemePianist Author:Nat Wolff
“I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.” TryingYearsFirstsUsedFatherBandTenMusicianJazzWestProductionsCoastWest CoastAnnieJazz Band Author:Molly Ringwald
“From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.” TwoFatherInterestReaderFilledJazzVery GoodStorytellingTwo ThingsStorytellerPianistProvokedAvid Author:Athol Fugard