Famous Jazz Musicians Give 20 Reasons To "Come See The Show"

The greatest names of jazz history give you 20 reasons to see our concert Jazz In New York Part 2 at Cadogan Hall on January 28th 2017:

#20: To see all that's purple, green and swinging: "I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing."  Miles Davis

#19: To see entertainment pip business sense: "Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did." Woody Herman

 

#18: To see if they've learnt how to play it yet: "Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it)." Dexter Gordon

 

#17: Because we all hanker after yesteryear: "Bebop has set music back twenty years." Tommy Dorsey

#16: To live life on the edge: "Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and being safe." Miles Davis

 

#15: Because of Enrico Tomasso's Swingtette:

  
#14: To surrender to the dark side: "I don't know where Jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens." Thelonious Monk

#13: To get a fix during Dry-January: "Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it."  Steve Lacy

#12: For an evening of the utmost sincerity: "As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz." Lee Konitz

#11: For a foot tapping good time: "They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance." Dizzy Gillespie

#10: To help us keep the band together: "To keep a band together you simply need a gimmick. The gimmick I use is to pay them money."  Duke Ellington

#9: For a warm welcome no matter who you are: "If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters and gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't the middle-class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight." Betty Carter

#8: To change your life: "I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in the late '40s and '50s." Robert Wyat

#7: For a musical epiphany: "I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy and Bird." John Coltrane

 

#6: For an escape from Brexit, Trump and Dry-January: "Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions." Johnny Griffin

#5: For the disreputable musicians of the Echoes Of Ellington Orchestra: "By and large Jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with." Duke Ellington

#4: To settle the question: "As it enters the ear does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?" Eddie Condon

#3: To keep calm and hear the Swing Era evolve into Be-Bop before your very ears!

 

#2: To commune with Amy: "I would say that jazz is my own language." Amy Winehouse

 

#1: Because two out of three ain't bad: "The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails." Federico Garcia Lorca (writer - everyone's a critic)