"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

Work, Pretty

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"I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me."

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"I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me."

Idea,

"I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York."

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"There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end."

Time, End, Fun

"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."

Being, London, Play

"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

Invention, Jazz, Personality

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes."

Music, Jazz, Job, Night

"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so."

Music, Years

"I'm playin' the music I like."

Music,

"I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known."

People,

"The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time."

Time, Jazz

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