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All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
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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 finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.
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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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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.
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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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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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So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
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I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
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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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I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.
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At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.
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There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
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I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon.
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