I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
I was exposed to jazz early on.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
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