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I've always loved jazz.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.