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WJ: I listen to a lot of jazz now. Not far out jazz. Easy jazz. I take the middle road. Classic jazz. I
listen to a lot of jazz on the radio.

BiTS: What do you mean by that? Miles Davis and that sort of thing.

WJ: Early Miles Davis, so up to when he started getting trendy and hippy. I listen to as much jazz
on the radio as I can and keep abreast of any new stuff that’s happening. I find that as an older

person, jazz is much more fulfilling, isn’t it? I listen to a lot of classical music as well on the radio. I
don’t know what it is, half of it.

BiTS: I’ve got a bit of a problem if I put any jazz on because my wife just thinks it’s noise
[laughing].

WJ: It’s much the same with me, I’m afraid, yes, to some extent. My wife played for a while. I’m
talking some banjo stuff and she played old-timey banjo in one of the groups we had. We recorded
and toured and everything but not for long because we had the kids. You can’t do both. She wasn’t

going to go away and leave the kids, so it never really happened.

BiTS: Do you realise that you are a huge inspiration to people?

WJ: Well, it’s nice to think that, yes. I’ve certainly brought a lot of pleasure to people. I know that.
So that’s what’s made it all worthwhile and I still get a buzz from the ego thing of entertaining
people and hearing them enjoy it and come up and say, oh that was great. I still get a buzz from

that. It’s really into the twilight years now [laughing].

BiTS: Rubbish. There’s years to go yet. Absolutely years to go. Wizz, thanks very much indeed for
talking to me. It’s been an absolute delight.