Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.

But anything that you hear about Japan is nothing like what you see when you actually go over there and see it, you know, in a real situation.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.