“The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.” Pat Metheny, an American jazz guitarist, composer & leader of the Pat…
"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know." Billie Holiday "Lady Day,” American jazz singer…
The Barbados Jazz Society has a new logo and website banner designed by Phillip Kellman, a student in Graphic Arts at Barbados Community College. BJS is grateful…
"I like minor tunes. Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: if you're not feeling right, play a minor tune & it falls into place." - Marian McPartland, jazz…
“It’s the group sound that’s important, even when you’re playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back…
“It's important to help people understand how valuable and important Jazz is; to make them understand that this music is theirs, that it's a part of them . . .”…
"Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it." - Dexter Gordon, an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He was among the earliest tenor players to adapt the bebop musical language…
"What we play is life." - Louis Armstrong, an American jazz trumpeter and singer who came to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player; a…
"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.”…