As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

I listen to classical music very much. There's a lot of jazz that I don't enjoy listening to.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.