Only A Few Act - The Rest

I Try To Put A Lot Of Our Music In My Music - By That I Mean Of American Music.

For Me As A Person Who's In The Arts And As Someone Who Understands The Magnitude Of Our Contributions And The Price That Was Paid To Contribute To That, That We Just Have Not Gotten That Together. I Will Do All That I Can To Get In Front Of Our Kids, To Try To Teach Them, But At A Certain Point The People Have To Want It And Come Towards It.

Let The Critics Criticize And Let The Doers Do.

Jazz Music Is The Power Of Now. There Is No Script. It's Conversation. The Emotion Is Given To You By Musicians As They Make Split-second Decisions To Fulfill What They Feel The Moment Requires.

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