To Most Jazz Critics I Was Basically

The Reality Is That What You Find Out Is That Your Head Is The Medicine. If Your Head Is Not In The Right Place And You Don't Think Positively, All The Medicine Technology In The World Is Not Going To Work.

What I Try To Do Is Produce An Atmosphere Where Musicians Want To Invest In What They Do And Give To The Recording. I Hire Those Musicians Who I Know Will Play Something Creative And Interesting.

My Ego Is Controlled Enough That I Don't Have To Be The Focus.

The Music We're Playing Now Is Based On My Heritage, Which Is Russian, Romanian And Hungarian.

I Was Raised In Brooklyn, And I Lived There For 59 Years.