As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.

As regards my feelings about drummers - there's Buddy Rich, and then there's everybody else.

To me, nostalgia is nothing more than a mindless plundering of the past for the commonplace.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer.