I'm not imprisoned within any particular style or category of music. I grew up in the be-bop culture or what people today call classic jazz.
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Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.Roy Ayers
Polydor used to release me at different times around the world. You get your royalty statement sales here, here, but never over there
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When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
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Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.
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I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.
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