And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

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.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

And then adds with a laugh, 'but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.'