I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.

You do [jazz] because you love it and hope many some others may as well. You do this because you need it.

Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

When I was a kid, I always saw these pictures of a man called Bob Gordon with a baritone saxophone, who I understood was my father. Turns out he wasn't. He was my mother's first husband.