Because The Blues Is The Basis Of

I Had To Figure Out How To Survive In New York, And Most Of My Time Was Occupied In Getting An Apartment And Getting Money. A Lot Of Older Jazz Guys Looked Out For Me And Found Me Gigs And Places To Stay.

The Heart Of A Music Is Its Rhythm. The Heart Of Rhythm Section Music Is The Rhythm.

My Mother Always Took My Brothers And Me To Music Lessons. There Were Six Children. Our Parents Attended Our Concerts And Encouraged Us To Study And Enjoy Many Different Types Of Music.

We Need More Math Classes, We Need More Science. It's The Art Of Math And The Art Of Science That Creates All The Innovation, And We Have A Tradition Of Great Arts, Great Music.

I Get So Much From Having The Opportunity To Interface With The Younger People And To Bring Information To Them And To Represent Our Culture And Our Way Of Life. The Feeling And The Warmth And The Love, It's Unbelievable. The Type Of Exchange That Goes On Between Students And Teachers Or Visiting People Who Are Doing Master Classes, And Not Just When They're Musicians. Even General Classes, When The Students Are Not Necessarily Musicians.