I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.
I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
I've done two albums for Concord Records; one was with Al Jarreau and it did very well for us. The second album was called 'Songs And Stories,' and it had good songs and good performances, but I promised them I would do an album that was more jazz-oriented.
It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.
I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.
I tried to download a jazz album this week and ended up getting some tracks four times, some once, some three times; in total I ended up with 50 tracks. I don't know how I did it.
I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.
