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

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

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.

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

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.