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"It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense."
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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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"I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself."
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"It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way."
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"Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately."
Wit
"The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing."
Composer
"It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way."
Jazz
"Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs."
Job
"New York is still where I live most of the time."
Time
"Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones."
Dance
"If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble."
Sense
"So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone."
Money
"People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy."
Music
"The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine."
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