I Have Friends Who Will

I Always Like To Play Very Contemporary Concepts Of Swing Right Next To New Orleans Music Because It Highlights Continuum.

As You Get Older - For Example, In Our Band We Have Members Of Our Orchestra, Like Carlos Enriquez And Ali Jackson And Walter Blanning. I Taught Them When They Were In High School, And Now They Teach Me.i'll Regularly Call Ali And Say, "man, Can You Break This Rhythm Down For Me?" Or Carlos Was Actually Our Music Director In Cuba, And He's Been Instrumental In A Lot Of My Education, And I Started To Develop A Saying With Them, Because They Tease Me All The Time - You Get Older, You Have That Familiar Relationship - I Say, "you Have To Follow Your Young Leadership, Too."

Some Stances Are Just Conducive To Swinging. If I Stand Up Straight For Too Long It's Harder To Swing. Plus My Feet Hurt.

The First Jazz Musician Was A Trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, And The Last Will Be A Trumpeter, The Archangel Gabriel.

I Think That When The Education System Started To Be Dismantled During The First Great Depression In The 1930s, We Didn't Recover From That.