By WILLIAM VERITY Aug. 4, 2013, 4 p.m.
Normally, when you ask a man who has his first child later in life about fatherhood, you can't shut him up about the wonders of becoming a parent.
It speaks volumes about jazz musician Vince Jones that he does not fall into this category.
When interviewed in 2007, he explained that he had never been married because he has been "married to music for 35 years".
"She's a wild and wonderful partner," he said. "If I treat her well, she brings much pleasure to me and others too.
"I love children but I never had my own because I never stopped and I think you've got to be around them."
Well, some things change and some things don't.
It's only well into the fag end of the interview that Jones reveals that he now has a child, a two-year-old daughter, and that he loves her very much.
That she's called Sonny, after jazz legend Sonny Rollins, tells us that Jones is still married to music.
Proof - if it were needed - comes from the fact that Jones would much rather talk about Sonny the sax player than Sonny his only child.
"Coming back to what we were saying before ... when you don't play what you know, can you hear that in Sonny Rollins' playing?" says Jones.
"It just comes out: he says the same, he doesn't know what's coming out."
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