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"At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone."
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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."
"I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express."
"As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental 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."
"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."
"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."
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