Humility Is The Doorway 2 Truth &

Trumpet Players Are Just Belligerant, And Cocky, And You Know, Just Hard-headed.

And That's The Soulful Thing About Playing: You Offer Something To Somebody. You Don't Know If They'll Like It, But You Offer It.

Everything About The Swing Is About Some Guideline And Some Grid And The Elegant Way That You Negotiate Your Way Through That Grid.

To Say That The Afro American Created Jazz Doesn't Mean Anything Bad About Anglo Americans, And I Always Teach My Younger Jazz Musicians That At This Point The Entirety Of The American Tradition Is Your Heritage, And You Need To Know It.

Nothing Else Will Ever Capture The Democratic Process In Sound As Perfectly As Jazz.