"Being curious is an absolute rule of life. If you don’t have that, I don’t know what you're doing in this music."

"Even while I was studying at [Manhattan School of Music], I was learning about melody and rhythm, and theory, and har…"

"You must remember that it was a different time...It was before everyone was looking into their smartphones. There wer…"

"Very often the things that we consider to be new are not new. They're just new combinations or reanimations and reima…"

"As one who wrote interesting stories — whimsical stories, perhaps — and who drew whimsical maps and landscapes across…"

"One of my fondest childhood recollections is spinning 7” vinyl records on my plastic turntable, an RCA 45-EY. Becomin…"

"I was stuck somewhere between originality and no gigs. My own colleagues called me the conceptualist, the maverick wi…"

"I was just a kid inventing my own guitar chords because I did not have a teacher. Whatever sounded good to me was eff…"

"Red Garland is one of the those musicians you probably know a lot more about than you think you do, but it's still no…"

"A famous jazz musician walks into a studio while the engineers are listening back to a recent recording. The musician…"