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Jan Garbarek

"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?"

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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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"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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"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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"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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"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
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