There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.

Benny Goodman's band was integrated before baseball. Even before it was physically integrated, music was integrated. Everyone listened to Armstrong and Ellington. The 20s was called the Jazz Age. It's part of being American.

Thank the good Lord for a job.

Ethics are more important than laws.

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum.

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.