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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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"Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me."
"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."
"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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"I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz."
"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to."
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