They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

There are a lot of great players... a lot of great players around, but Louie Bellson is really something special.

Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.