"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

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"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

People,

"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

Time, End, Fun

"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."

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

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"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."

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"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."

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"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

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