Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.

We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing.