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I was exposed to jazz early on.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

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

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

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

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.