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Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

I started playing when I was 5. I'm from a family of musicians.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.