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Part of my joy as a singer is to give gifts to people, and one way I try to connect to them is to add something in French or German or whatever.

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You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.

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As improvisers, we're acting as composers in front of people.

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It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

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Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.

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I really thought I was gonna have a straight gig. But these jazz musicians put their arms around me time and again and said, 'Hey, young fella, you're one of us. Come with us.' That's a big deal when you're young and looking for your way in the world.

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You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.

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We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.

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Chicago has a burly, action-oriented but still self-assured and relaxed confidence to its stride. The city has a lot of wide-open space and all the possibilities that suggests. There's a lot of horizontal grandeur here.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: November 2nd, 1967

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