I Was Raised In Brooklyn,

If You Keep Your Head In The Sand, You Don't Know Where The Kick's Coming From.

I Was Raised In Brooklyn, And I Lived There For 59 Years.

But When I First Got Cancer, After The Initial Shock And The Fear And Paranoia And Crying And All That Goes With Cancer - That Word Means To Most People Ultimate Death - I Decided To See What I Could Do To Take That Negative And Use It In A Positive Way.

The Music We're Playing Now Is Based On My Heritage, Which Is Russian, Romanian And Hungarian.

As Much As I Think John Coltrane Belongs On The List, I Think Without Coleman Hawkins And Lester Young, Both Of Whom Defined Improvising On The Tenor Sax, There Would Not Have Been The Evolution Of The Craft By John Coltrane.