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• ‟ It's very rare that you get very old jazz lovers and super-young hip-hop lovers at the same exact show, when you think about it. Not many artists can do that.

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• ‟ I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.

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• ‟ There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

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• ‟ I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

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• ‟ When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.

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• ‟ If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

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• ‟ Anybody who loves jazz has a little bit of snob in them.

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• ‟ Around 2009, my audience started getting a lot more mainstream - younger people, R&B and hip-hop fans mixed in with the jazz audience.

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• ‟ A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

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