Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

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

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

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.

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.

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