As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
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At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.Mose Allison
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
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But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.
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I'm pretty much self-centered in that way. I don't try to predict what's gonna happen to jazz or anything like that. Nobody knows what jazz.
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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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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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