Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.
The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
I was exposed to jazz early on.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
I think that people should learn about that. In most music, there's one way that you do something, and that's the only way. In jazz, it's a lot different.
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
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