I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me