Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's incredible. You feel like you are there.

My music is jazz.

If it has more than three chords, it's jazz.

We have different genres that are complementary to jazz and close to the idiom. This is the 37th outdoor music festival I've organized and I think it's going to be spectacular.