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

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

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.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

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

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.

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