Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
“It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.”
“Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.”