Bone2Pick Interviews

Urbie Green is the greatest trombone player I have ever heard.

John Belushi told me he was going to make me the most famous trombone player since Jimmy Dorsey. I didn’t have the heart to tell him Jimmy was the saxophone 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.

Don’t have too many expectations . . . go where you go.

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.

It was thanks to a brass player that I got the gig with Weather Report.