In Jazz, Improvisation Isn't A Matter Of

We're Blues People. And Blues Never Lets Tragedy Have The Last Word.

You Need A Team. You Need People To Push You. You Need Opponents.

We Always Hear About The Rights Of Democracy, But The Major Responsibility Of It Is Participation.

Blues Is Like The Roux In A Gumbo. People Ask Me If Jazz Always Has The Blues In It. I Say, If It Sounds Good It Does.

My Father Was A Teacher, My Mama Was A Community Worker, I Taught In So Many Schools. So When You Get That Experience Of How To Communicate With Younger People, Put That Hand On Them And Give Them That Old-school Feeling, The Maturity And Adult, A Lot Of Our Kids Just Need The Feeling Of That Love, And That's The Frame Of Reference That I Teach From And That's The Frame Of Reference That All Of Our Musicians In The Jazz At Lincoln Center.