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

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

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.

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

I've always loved jazz.

Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

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

Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.