Amongst a sea of bad decisions I’ve made in my life, that was a good one! (dropping out of school to join Buddy Rich’s band)
Musically, playing with Frank Sinatra might still be the highlight of my life.
It would not surprise me if in the next hundred years a future John Coltrane is a trombone player.
The line of horn players waiting to sit in with Elvin Jones looked like the line of people waiting to buy fish at Zabar’s.
Mike got stuck with the clarinet. After we had been playing for a couple years, we used to get together in the bathroom ‘cause we liked the echo. We would just play free . . . we didn't know much about chord changes at that age.
