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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
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"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."
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"I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived."
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"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
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"If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been."
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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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"I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to."
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"To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G."
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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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"Once you start collecting records you learn more and more about jazz and blues."
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"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."
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"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."
Jazz
"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
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"People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds."
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"I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz."
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"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
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"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
Jazz
"My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent."
Time
"I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young."
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"From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles."
Culture
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