My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.