I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.