"I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz."

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"I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more."

Education, Music, Time, Being

"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."

Wedding, Pretty

"And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university."

Work, People, University

"I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages."

Community, Singing

"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."

American,

"I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick."

Music, College, Pretty, Quick

"A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set."

Music, Singing

"If there was any other place I would live, other than Miami, it would be California. It's beautiful. The weather is just gorgeous, I love being here, too."

Love, Being, Weather

"This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show."

Love, Earth, Fire, Wind

"Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder."

Thought, Wonder

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"All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues."

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"My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden."

Mose Allison, American Musician

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"The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues."

Luther Allison, American Musician

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"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

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"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."

Louis Armstrong, American Musician

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"The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician."

Louis Armstrong, American Musician

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"It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice."

David Baker, American Composer

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"And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school."

Travis Barker, American Musician

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"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

Travis Barker, American Musician

Jazz, Play, Will

"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

Count Basie, American Musician

Jazz, Play