My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

I never felt like I had a mother.

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.