"Don't give up trying to do what you really want. Where there is love & inspiration, you can't go wrong." - Ella Fitzgerald, an American Jazz vocalist with…
"The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed." - Chick Corea, American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and…
April 30, 2013 was International Jazz Day. The Barbados Jazz Society joined 194 countries around the globe to celebrate this UNESCO inspired event. http://jazzday.com/
BJS celebrated with the Steel…
" Jazz is a mental attitude rather than a style. It uses a certain process of the mind expressed spontaneously through some musical instrument. I'm concerned with retaining that process.”…
"As long as musicians have passion for spontaneity & creating something that's never been before, jazz will flourish." - Charlie Haden, an American double bassist known for his association…
“ People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music - it's not easy for them…
“Once we are inside a tune, we can do anything with it” - Keith Jarrett, an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music. Jarrett’s improvisations…
"Music is to the soul what water is to the body." Oliver Wendell Holmes - an American physician, poet, and author. Recognized as an important medical reformer, and regarded…
"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you." Stan Getz - American tenor…
"Improvising musicians are musical travelers, voyagers. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape." Gary Burton – American jazz vibraphonist who developed the four-mallet technique for playing the…
"They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance." John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie - American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and…
"A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas." Stan Getz – the American tenor saxophonist who came to prominence in the late…