Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
“Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.”
“In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.”