New orleans jazz quotes:

Send

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz. -- Steve Lacy
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. -- Joy Harjo
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. -- John Goodman
Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. -- Amy Sedaris
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences. -- Tim Cahill
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar. -- Damien Chazelle
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups. -- Branford Marsalis
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. -- Wynton Marsalis
--
The Meters are, I think, the most influential group in our time to come out of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz. -- John Scofield
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know? -- Christian Scott
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll, really. You can make the argument that it all started on the streets of New Orleans with the jazz funerals. -- The Edge
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902. -- Jelly Roll Morton
In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from. -- Jelly Roll Morton

Send