If You Understood Everything I Say, You'd

The Reason [drummers] Call Things "unison", And They Sound Unison, Is Because You Actually Play Two Different Tempos . . . Like You're A Little Sharp, Or A Little Flat; It's So Slight That They Call It "unison", But It's Not Unison.

The Thing To Judge In Any Jazz Artist Is, Does The Man Project And Does He Have Ideas.

That Was My Gift . . . Having The Ability To Put Certain Guys Together That Would Create A Chemistry And Then Letting Them Go; Letting Them Play What They Knew, And Above It.

Jazz Is An Uncle Tom Word. They Should Stop Using That Word For Selling. I Told George Wein The Other Day That He Should Stop Using It.

If Somebody Told Me I Only Had An Hour To Live, I'd Spend It Choking A White Man. I'd Do It Nice And Slow.