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

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

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

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

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

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.

It's always fun to talk about jazz.