Good Music is Good Music. I've been following your career for many, many years, all my life it seems like. And you've spent a lifetime exploring the linkages between jazz and classical music.
Good music is good music, period.
And that's it. That's what I discovered. Henry Mancini and Johnny Mandel and some other people before me were doing it so when I saw movies or television shows they were doing, using jazz groups with strings and some symphony, I came here. The proof is that some of my first scores like the Cincinnati Kid where I had Ray Charles with a symphony orchestra and Cool Hand Luke and Bullet and even the television shows. It was always that need to expand the expression of jazz.