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

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

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

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

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

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

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.