"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."

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"Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in."

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"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

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

Living

"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

"I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs."

Ideas

"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

"It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder."

Fun

"There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere."

Jokes

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

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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."

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"I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me."

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