Ted Lewis could make the clarinet talk. What it said was put me back in the case!
Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
This all came of a conversation I had with [John] Steinbeck once when we were standing in a men's room somewhere. Steinbeck asked me why I didn't play the banjo any more and I told him that went out with the high-button shoes.
For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.