"Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that."

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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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"I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted."

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