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"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends."
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"Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great."
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"I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff."
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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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"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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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count."
Family
"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world."
Music
"In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that."
Time
"Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz."
Jazz
"I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician."
Jazz
"My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
Navy
"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."
Classroom
"Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song."
Country
"There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians."
Help
"By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway."
Business
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