My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.