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"I have been steadily exchanging a rock audience who were nervous about what they had just bought for a jazz audience who not only were happy with their purchase, but are increasingly coming again."
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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
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"I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer."
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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 stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place."
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"I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to."
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"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart."
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"Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack."
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"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
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"We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol."
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"If I was hearing something I couldn't do, I would figure out how to do it."
Hearing
"And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area."
Music
"My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton."
Harmony
"I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts."
Being
"Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past."
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"I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do."
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