I'm An Exhibitionist, I Was An Exhibitionist

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.

I Don't Think I Went A Year Or So Without A Record Between 1959 And 1979, Sometimes Two.

And Then Adds With A Laugh, 'but In Retrospect I Think He May Have Been More Sophisticated Than We Were.'

If I Do A Piece In My Living Room, If I Practice It - And I Have The Tapes To Prove This - It's Not Going To Be As Good As Doing The Same Piece In Front Of An Audience.

I Cut Myself Off From The Mainstream Of Jazz. It Stood Me In Good Stead Later On, As A Musician.