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I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

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.

I want to be the jazz singer.

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

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

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

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

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.