Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.

The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.