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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

I've always loved jazz.

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

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

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

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

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

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.