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For his personal artistic expression, Owens prefers jazz, he says, because, "Jazz covers all the bases of music. … freedom of structure … There’s free of thought and more conflict than in any other kind of music." He regularly performs jazz during stints at home in Austin between tour dates and is
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I was already interested in jazz when I got there, but when I heard Roy
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