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

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

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

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I played the sax at school. I was in marching band.

I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.