We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
I was exposed to jazz early on.
I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.
I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.