My Earliest Memories Are Being Pinned To

Everybody Has Their Idiosyncrasies.

I Was Inspired By A Lot Of People When I Was Young, Every Band That Came Through Town, To The Theater, Or The Dance Hall. I Was At Every Dance, Every Night Club, Listened To Every Band That Came Through, Because In Those Days We Didn't Have Mtv, We Didn't Have Television.

My Son Is A Hip-hop Producer.

If You Started In New York You Were Dealing With The Biggest Guys In The World. You're Dealing With Charlie Parker And All The Big Bands And Everything. We Got More Experience Working In Seattle.

Count Basie Practically Adopted Me At 13. We Became Closer And Closer And I Ended Up Conducting For Him And Sinatra.