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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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"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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"Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing."
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"The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation."
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"There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that."
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"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."
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"If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit."
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"You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key."
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