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- Nov 07, 2020
And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him.
- Jazz
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.
- Obscure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just have a lot off different influences.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.
- Nov 07, 2020
I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.
- Boogie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm playin' the music I like.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder.
- Armstrong
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pizza Express has been a real godsend for me. I've been working there for several years, six weeks a year. You can go to work every night and play. It's a nice little club. It's just about the right size for me, about 150 people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.
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- Nov 07, 2020