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"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense."
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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."
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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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"And I used to listen to a lot of jazz."
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"The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25."
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"But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn."
Money
"I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons."
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"I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid."
Music
"I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere."
Time
"I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs."
Death
"I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have."
Musicians
"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune."
Mother
"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."
Jazz
"I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz."
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