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As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance - he's a funky trumpet player, so he was my man.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

I was exposed to jazz early on.

I'm thrilled when I hear the greatest jazz musicians. They continue to search in ways other musicians do not.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.