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"Not with the Rochester Philharmonic, but I formed my own orchestra, made up of musicians from the Eastman School, where I'm on the faculty now, direct the Jazz Ensemble and teach improvisation classes."
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"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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"Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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"Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything."
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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."
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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right."
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"To do it always right, that is what music is to me."
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"My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records."
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"What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image."
People
"I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people."
People
"I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people."
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"My music has always been strong in melodic content."
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"I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason."
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"Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music."
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