I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.