"When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz."
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"I love that [ late-50s Verve recordings] - to me, that's the epitome of vocal jazz. It's my favorite style and era of it."
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"I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz."
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"For me jazz is kind of an extension of hip-hop. Kind of the sad thing is that a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately."
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"Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music."
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"Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do."
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"[Jazz musicians] feel comfortable with their clichés, you know."
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"He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question."
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