"Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best."

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"Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best."

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"I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea."

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"What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image."

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"With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy."

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"Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them."

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"There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right."

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"Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music."

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"Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live."

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"I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music."

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