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“People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.”

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Author:Elvis Costello

“My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.”

“There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.”

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Author:Syd Barrett

“My father had played cornet, although I never saw him play it. I found his mouthpiece when I was a kid. I used to buzz it. And my mother played piano and sang in the church choir for different functions. So there was always music in the house, jazz, gospel, or whatever. Especially jazz records.”

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Author:Johnny Griffin

“The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.”

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Author:Al Kooper

“I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.”

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Author:Robert Barry

“By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere records that that Paquito [D'Rivera] was on. And he also played me and our friend, Curtis Haywood, some Phil Woods records. And when I heard Phil, I just about lost my mind. I was playing the Charlie Parker Omnibook as part of my lessons. This was the '80s. There was no YouTube and all that. And we had three or four jazz records at that point.”

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Author:Jon Gordon

“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”

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Author:Duke Ellington

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.”

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Author:Ornette Coleman

“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”

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Author:Paul Desmond

“I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.”

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Author:Rita Coolidge

“I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.”

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Author:Gary Cherone

“Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.”

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Author:Patrick Stump

“I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.”

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Author:Rita Coolidge

“I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.”

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Author:Rita Coolidge

“Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.”

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Author:Rita Coolidge