“The humble improve“

- Wynton Marsalis, Jazz musician

"It takes a great drummer to be better than no drummer..."

-Chet Baker

"So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument."

- Miroslav Vitous

"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."

- Branford Marsalis

"People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds."

- Pat Metheny

"I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat."

- Wes Montgomery

"In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds."

- Steve Lacy

"Women and rhythm-section first!"

- Jaco Pastorius

"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."

- Stan Kenton

He Martin, ben jij Martin Senders?

Hallo Philip,

ik heet Vulders, studeer Muziek Filosofie en ben fervent Jazzliefhebber.
Vindt dit een heel leuke site maar
miste een beetje de JAZZ hier de laatste tijd.

heb heel veel leuke Jazz-Links en dacht ik plaats wat Quotes.
Kijken of er andere mensen ook nog leuke kenden die ik nog niet heb.
Jazz-Jokes mogen ook!

Leuk idee. Ik ga ook eens op zoek, heb ergens ook nog een paar geinige uitspraken liggen.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
Charlie Haden

Will Lee, about time:
"There's three kinds of people in the world, those that can count and those that can't."

Kerry Galloway (906) wrote:
A famous jazz guitarist would tour solo and pick up a different bassist in every town he played. He got a young college bassist one night. Up the neck, down the neck...the bassist spent half the night playing high up in thumb position. After the gig, the guitarist said to the young bassist "Man, you sound great. You and I should get us a bass player and do some gigs".

"The opportunity was there...but it never presented itself."


Phil Urso, 1980

Waarom tolereren de bandleden de solo's van de contrabassist? Omdat hij de enige is met een auto.

Zitten twee jazzmuzikanten aan de bar:
"Nog nieuws?"
"Ja, m'n nieuwe CD is net uit"
"En, al veel verkocht?"
"Mwahh, valt mee. Tot nog toe alleen m'n auto en m'n huis."

"The problem with jazz is that it is hidden in plain sight."

—Peter Gordon, Thirsty Ear Records

"Wes Montgomery played impossible things on the guitar because it was never pointed out to him that they were impossible".

—Ronnie Scott

"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture".

—Thelonious Monk

"Ahhh - those Jazz guys are just makin' that stuff up!"

-Homer Simpson