If You Have To Ask, You'll Never

Coltrane, You Cant Play Everything At Once!

Birth Of The Cool' Became A Collector's Item, I Think, Out Of A Reaction To Bird And Dizzy's Music. Bird And Diz Played This Hip, Real Fast Thing, And If You Weren't A Fast Listener, You Couldn't Catch The Humor Or The Feeling In Their Music. Their Musical Sound Wasn't Sweet, And It Didn't Have Harmonic Lines That You Could Easily Hum Out On The Street With Your Girlfriend Trying To Get Over With A Kiss.

Certain Drummers Drop Time, And I Like To Play On Top Of The Beat.

We're Not Going To Play The Blues Anymore. Let The White Folks Play The Blues. They Got 'em, So They Can Keep 'em.

Some Day I'm Gonna Call Me Up On The Phone, So When I Answer, I Can Tell Myself To Shut Up.