I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
“I grew up in Boston, so it's a nice change to be cold after living in California.”
“Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.”