Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.

I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.