The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.
I went up to his [Hank Jones’] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.
Jazz is a complete lifestyle, something that you feel, something that you live.
Jazz is something you have to feel, something you have to live.