I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.
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And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
I became a professional musician and played all kinds of music. I played bluegrass, I played classical music, and for many years, I played 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 played the sax at school. I was in marching band.
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.
I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
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.