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In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band. -- Clint Eastwood
I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one. -- Glenn Miller
And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. -- Travis Barker
It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way. -- Gerry Mulligan
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. -- Wyclef Jean
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike. -- Jeremih
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. -- Gerry Mulligan
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. -- Jonny Greenwood
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. -- Molly Ringwald
My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around. -- Louis Prima
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school. -- Chad Smith
When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band. -- Flea
There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched. -- Damien Chazelle
I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir. -- Kiesza
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice. -- Nellie McKay
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that. -- Mike Gordon
I used to hang out a lot in jazz clubs, and the groups took to a kid like me who wasn't afraid to get up and sing with a jazz band. Then I started to hang out in rock clubs and learned to carry off different styles. -- Eric Burdon
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar. -- Chris Carmack
Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake -- Dylan Moran
Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake. -- Dylan Moran
I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one. -- Glenn Miller
Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs -- Michael Buble
Player for player, thereâ??s â?¨no better working band in jazz than The Cookers. -- Andy Gilbert
I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk. -- John Lescroart
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. -- Bix Beiderbecke
'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music. -- Artie Shaw
Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar. -- Mike Tucker
I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people. -- Bobby Vinton
You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually. -- Herbert
In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen. -- Chet Baker
Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff. -- Gloria Gaynor
As a quartet, they struck an unmusical note, primarily the fault of Ybarra-Jaega, who seemed as out of place in their company as a violin in a jazz band. -- Truman Capote
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones -- Gerry Mulligan
My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records. -- Chuck Mangione
Communication is the essential medium of a creative culture: the communal sea in which we all swim. A company that can't communicate is like a jazz band without instruments: Music just isn't going to happen. -- John Kao

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