I've appeared on some other people's albums.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

New York is still where I live most of the time.

When [Billy] Strayhorn came on the scene, he just blew us away.