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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 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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"The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities."
Beauty
"I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do."
Sound
"People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds."
Time
"I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times."
Day
"I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is."
Jazz
"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."
Music
"I hate the way chorus boxes sound."
Hate
"Listening is the key to everything good in music."
Music
"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
"Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music."
Love
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