The Bandstand Is A Sacred

Don't Settle For Style. Succeed In Substance.

Milk In A Mother's Breast-that's Cool. Milk In A Mouth-that's Cool Too. But Milk In My Trumpet? Not So Cool. I Have To Play That Thing.

Jazz Music Is The Power Of Now. There Is No Script. It's Conversation. The Emotion Is Given To You By Musicians As They Make Split-second Decisions To Fulfill What They Feel The Moment Requires.

My Father Was A Teacher, My Mama Was A Community Worker, I Taught In So Many Schools. So When You Get That Experience Of How To Communicate With Younger People, Put That Hand On Them And Give Them That Old-school Feeling, The Maturity And Adult, A Lot Of Our Kids Just Need The Feeling Of That Love, And That's The Frame Of Reference That I Teach From And That's The Frame Of Reference That All Of Our Musicians In The Jazz At Lincoln Center.

Commercialism That Has Absolutely No Relationship To Quality Whatsoever, Only Quantitative Assessment Of A Thing.