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Robert Picardo

I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It’s not what I do.

– Robert Picardo

Paul Horn

Even back when I played ‘straight-ahead,’ I mixed it up. I played some free-form, classical adaptations, solo flute stuff. It was New Age in its own way.

– Paul Horn

John Scofield

In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing – which is good for me, as that’s one part of where I’m at. It’s been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.

– John Scofield

John Abercrombie

The way I evolved was playing straight-ahead jazz into playing more fusion-type stuff just because I was young enough to get into it. As I get older, I find myself coming back to where I kind of started.

– John Abercrombie

John Abercrombie

I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early ’60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn’t a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

– John Abercrombie

Gretchen Parlato

I always used to say I’m definitely not a straight-ahead jazz singer, because then there’s people who would hear what I do and say, ‘Is it jazz? I don’t know…’ Whatever it is, it really comes down to creating music that makes people feel something.

– Gretchen Parlato

David Sanborn

I’m moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it’s pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.

– David Sanborn

Adam West

You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed; he’s strange.

– Adam West

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