The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

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

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.