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.

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

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

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

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