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" All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues. "
Jazz
Classic
Sang
" And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. "
Him
Still
Lot
" As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. "
Personality
Far
Swing
" At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone. "
Listen
Point
Too Much
" But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good. "
Got
Pretty
Show
" I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years. "
Been
Years
Took
" I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire. "
Stuff
Judge
Own
" I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. "
Play
Pizza
Moment
" 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. "
Obscure
People
Standards
" I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. "
New York
Finally
Going
" I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me. "
Seen
Doin
Me
" I haven't stopped and I don't plan on stoppin' any time soon. "
Plan
Any
Soon
" I just have a lot off different influences. "
Just
Different
Influences
" 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. "
Good
Play
Night
" I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs. "
Turn
Think
Away
" 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. "
Years
See
Person
" I'm playin' the music I like. "
Like
Music
" I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. "
Things
Sit
Never
" I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old. "
Sang
Years
Wrote
" It's as much fun as it ever was, you know, once I get there. Gettin' there is a little harder. "
Little
You
Fun
" 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. "
Over
Work
Working
" I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. "
Want
Turn
Radio
" 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. "
Swing
Through
Know
" My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden. "
Been
Classic
Jazz
" 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. "
People
Nice
Night
" So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts. "
Concerts
Mostly
Nightclubs
" The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time. "
New York
Then
Time
" 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. "
Try
Started
See
" 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. "
View
Somewhere
Point Of View
" There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end. "
In The End
Fun
End
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