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I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

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

It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

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

I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.

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