As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
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I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
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The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
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So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
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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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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.
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