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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

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.

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