You might say I'm the spirit of jazz. I know all forms of jazz. I know how to take a band and to create that's cause of the experience I had as a child with a band. I wasn't out there in the combo thing. That's the reason it never interested me in solo piano and that.
Somebody start out with combos and trios and solos.
The bigger the band the better. Now that interests me. But you know if you go out and tell musicians that - strange enough they shake their heads astounded. I tell 'em you in the har- mony department, out of all the men on earth you should be delighted to get together to demonstrate harmony. If you demonstrate harmony, then the rest of the men in other sections of life can see that harmony can be demonstra- ted.