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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."
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"After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory."

"The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound."
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