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"Jazz was uplifted by what I did."
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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."
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"I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz."
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"I'm not a big jazz fan."
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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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"Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple."
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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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"Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what?"
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"I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything."
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"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas."
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"If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit."
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"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."
Chance
"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."
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"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
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"You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key."
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"There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that."
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