For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.