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"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
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"I was exposed to jazz early on."
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"I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences."
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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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"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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"Music is meant to be a beautiful thing."
Music
"My music has always been strong in melodic content."
Music
"In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz."
Jazz
"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."
Jazz
"I have been recording for five decades now."
Now
"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
Performance
"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."
Music
"Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live."
Fact
"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."
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"The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained."
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