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

If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

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

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

The whole reason for Jazz at the Philharmonic was to take it to places where I could break down segregation.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

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.