Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.
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.
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.
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.