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I've always loved jazz.

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.

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

I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.