I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Anybody who plays jazz can't escape the shadow of John Coltrane. We've been playing various arrangements of Coltrane's music since the beginning, but we really wanted to get deeply into what is probably his most famous recording.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.