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When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.

I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

I loved working with Eric Close and J T Walsh.

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

I grew up listening to Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, guys with blues backgrounds.