Honesty Is The Cruelest Game Of All,

Ian And Sylvia, Who, When You Got Right Down To It, Were Essentially Country And Western Singers. I Just Recorded His Four Strong Winds. It's A Wonderful Song.

There Is An Apprenticeship System In Jazz. You Teach The Young Ones. So Even If The Musicians Weren't Personally That Likable, They Felt An Obligation To Help The Younger Musicians.

By The Mid-70s, I Wanted To Get Out Of The Business. I Was Tired Anyway.

Most Of What I Listen To Now Is Mainstream Jazz From 1935 Right Up To And Including Early Bebop And Cool Jazz.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.