Jazz Is A Good Barometer

Yet, Every Time God's Children Have Thrown Away Fear In Pursuit Of Honesty-trying To Communicate Themselves, Understood Or Not, Miracles Have Happened.

In Music, As You Develop A Theme Or Musical Idea, There Are Many Points At Which Directions Must Be Decided, And At Any Time I Was In The Throes Of Debate With Myself, Harmonically Or Melodically, I Would Turn To Billy Strayhorn. We Would Talk, And Then The Whole World Would Come Into Focus. The Steady Hand Of His Good Judgment Pointed To The Clear Way That Was Fitting For Us. He Was Not, As He Was Often Referred To By Many, My Alter Ego. Billy Strayhorn Was My Right Arm, My Left Arm, All The Eyes In The Back Of My Head, My Brainwaves In His Head, And His In Mine.

Music Is My Mistress And She Plays Second Fiddle To No One.

There Is Nothing To Keeping A Band Together. You Simply Have To Have A Gimmick, And The Gimmick I Use Is To Pay Them Money!

I Like Any And All Of My Associations With Music: Writing, Playing, And Listening. We Write And Play From Our Perspective, And The Audience Listens From Its Perspective. If And When We Agree, I Am Lucky.