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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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"It's something that jazz has gotten away from, and it's unfortunate. Players aren't physical anymore."
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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."
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"I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record."
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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness."
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"I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey."
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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'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."
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"I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool."
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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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