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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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.
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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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So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
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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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I just have a lot off different influences.
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