In My Music, I'm Trying To Play

I, Myself, Came To Enjoy The Players Who Didn't Only Just Swing But Who Invented New Rhythmic Patterns, Along With New Melodic Concepts. And Those People Are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie And Charles Parker, Who Is The Greatest Genius Of All To Me Because He Changed The Whole Era Around.

They're Singing Your Praises While Stealing Your Phrases.

Making The Complicated Simple Is True Creativity.

Jazz Is The Language Of The Emotions.

I Always Thought That No Matter What Kind Of Work People Did, They Should Involve Themselves Totally With All The Discrimination They Ran Into.