When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.

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

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

God has a way of telling you when to change your strings.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.

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.