I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.