Occupation: Bandleader Birth: October 21, 1917 Death: January 6, 1993
As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future..
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be..
Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. Thiā¦.
There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy..