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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

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Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'

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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 20th, 1950

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