You Can Read All The Textbooks And

Life Is Too Full Of Distractions Nowadays. When I Was A Kid We Had A Little Emerson Radio And That Was It. We Were More Dedicated. We Didn't Have A Choice.

It’s Like A Language. You Learn The Alphabet, Which Are The Scales. You Learn Sentences, Which Are The Chords. And Then You Talk Extemporaneously With The Horn. It’s A Wonderful Thing To Speak Extemporaneously, Which Is Something I’ve Never Gotten The Hang Of. But Musically I Love To Talk Just Off The Top Of My Head. And That’s What Jazz Music Is All About.

A Good Quartet Is Like A Good Conversation Among Friends Interacting To Each Other's Ideas.

You Don't Rehearse Jazz To Death To Get The Camera Angles.

We Recorded To Document Ourselves, Not To Sell A Lot Of Records.