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"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."
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"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."

"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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