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.

In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

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

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

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