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I've always loved jazz.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

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.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.