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Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.

Jazz is a hard music, and you have to really work hard and also have fun performing; that's the most important thing.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music.

My music is jazz.

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