In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

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.

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

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

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.