A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.
But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.
The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
In my youth I thought I was going to be a professional rugby player.
I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
