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

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

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.

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

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.