Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them.

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

[Eddie Locke] had a huge impact in my life. He was a great jazz drummer. He was mentored by Papa Joe Jones and he played for many years with Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge and actually got me on a gig with Roy Eldridge when I was 20 that I'll never forget.

We were poor [with my mother], and we didn't have too much. So we sat on the floor and we had a record player, and that's all we had in that room in the apartment. But we had whatever we had. Six records and a record player and it seemed like magic. Seven or eight years old, you know.

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to facilitate it. That want to do work, have somebody like Bret Primack, the jazz video guy.

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.