When I arrived in New York I was definitely the worst player in town! It was just a measure of how far I had to go. It took years, while I was at Jui….

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist other….

I anticipated all the changes in jazz because they were all problematical things, that I was dealing with myself. In New York in the late '50s, there….

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you ca….

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, an….

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician..

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ru….

Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding!….