The Value Of Jazz Still Has To

It’s Like A Language. You Learn The Alphabet, Which Are The Scales. You Learn Sentences, Which Are The Chords. And Then You Talk Extemporaneously With The Horn. It’s A Wonderful Thing To Speak Extemporaneously, Which Is Something I’ve Never Gotten The Hang Of. But Musically I Love To Talk Just Off The Top Of My Head. And That’s What Jazz Music Is All About.

You Don't Rehearse Jazz To Death To Get The Camera Angles.

I Never Consciously Tried To Conceive Of What My Sound Should Be.

Records Used To Be Documents, But Now Record Companies Want Product.

I Never Have Any Trouble Playing Anything I Can Think Of. The Trouble Is In Thinking Of What To Play.