Lesson 8: Just Listen

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

Carla Bley

Lesson 7: If All Else Fails...Wing It!

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Miles Davis

Lesson 6: Making Your Own Sound

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Duke Ellington

Lesson 5: Be Nice to the Man in Charge

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

Paul Desmond

Isaiah Allen, senior jazz studies major 

Lesson 4: Getting Down to Business

Prof. Fredrick Irby III and the Howard Jazz Ensemble 

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Billy Crystal