I Always Told The People At Cal

I've Got A Collection Of Songs That I've Had, I Keep Adding To And They're All Great American Composers. I Wanted To Showcase American Composers And I've Done That On A Lot Of My Records And Played Things By American Composers That I Really Respect.

The Bass, No Matter What Kind Of Music You're Playing, It Just Enhances The Sound And Makes Everything Sound More Beautiful And Full. When The Bass Stops, The Bottom Kind Of Drops Out Of Everything.

I Want Them To Come Away With Discovering The Music Inside Them.

In The Midst Of Creating, A Person Is Raised To Another Level Of Consciousness That Doesn't Have That Much To Do With Everyday Thinking. It's As If You Could Imagine Life Before There Were Words.

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.