To Most Jazz Critics I Was Basically

For Me Brazilian Music Is The Perfect Mix Of Melody And Rhythm. It Just Bubbles Rhythmically. If I Had To Pick Just One Music Style To Play If Would Be Brazilian.

Think About It: Look At The Strides Of Awareness And Treatment And Tests That Women Have Had With Breast Cancer, That The Gay Community Has Had With Aids, Because They're Active And They Talk About It.

The Music We're Playing Now Is Based On My Heritage, Which Is Russian, Romanian And Hungarian.

I Was Raised In Brooklyn, And I Lived There For 59 Years.

But When I First Got Cancer, After The Initial Shock And The Fear And Paranoia And Crying And All That Goes With Cancer - That Word Means To Most People Ultimate Death - I Decided To See What I Could Do To Take That Negative And Use It In A Positive Way.