D C DowDell

Hipness is what it is. But sometimes hipness is what it ain’t.

Live music is best! Make plans to get out and support your local Jazz scene.

Jazz improvisation is the art of collective negotiated expression.

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time!

Jazz goes into my coffee in the morning, in my wine at night.

While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.

Only play what you hear. If you don’t hear anything, don’t play anything.

If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

Apparently Jazz is now considered high art and the average person has trouble understanding it.

T-Bone was, to me, that sound of being in heaven.

The true musician is to bring light into people’s hearts.

While many forms of music may use the dynamic of improvisation, Jazz exemplifies the unique characteristic of collective improvisation.

Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about Jazz and Blues.

Once you have been bitten by the Jazz bug, it is not a choice anymore.

I don’t worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

It’s a matter of who would be right for each song. Mickey Hart for ‘All We Need is An Island’ – he’s the only guy I know who has Tahitian drums and every kind of drum on the planet.

I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

The reward for playing Jazz is playing Jazz.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

The most important thing I look for in a musician is whether he knows how to listen.