But you know I get I'm getting a lot of a lot of just messages from people who are wrong the one thing I loved about when it because of course I was living a lot longer without all this technology The one thing I loved about when you could start emailing the text and messages and stuff to people around the world As I would hear from people from all over you know with a trumpet player somebody's birthday or somebody's grandmother I love all that kind of stuff That's why the 40 or something years that I've been gig and I always stay at the end of gigs and meet need everybody and talk to them and try to You know try to try to make them feel good about stuff and and here here younger people play and Meet couples and people of all ages so You know, it's the technology makes it makes it makes us able to communicate and I'm grateful for that. What was it like playing with art Blakey? If you give a video story or something Well You know, I'll give you a good story when I first went on a road with our Blakey I was 18 and I'd never really been on the road. We went to Europe with our Blakey big band and I grew up I was always worked, but I didn't I didn't recognize or realized how spoiled I was I had never been So first I didn't take enough socks So that's the first lesson you're going to roll make sure you take socks and underwear But we were traveling like 10 and 11 hours a day on a bus and we were playing gig I don't know how this tool was maybe six weeks eight weeks. So man, I just just I When I start to realize how hard it was I started to complain about it So we were on the road my brother breathed and I and Kevin and Robin you banks were also with us So we're like two sets of brothers and So Kevin Kevin started saying Kevin started teasing me. So I said what's wrong today? Skane they we've called him he's gay and then what's wrong today? You know, and so he starts singing the song. I didn't know the song was from Matthew mighty Python Always look on the bright side of life So that first time on the road no, I had a hard time, but our Blakey was so for real with us and He didn't play he had been out there for many years, you know struggling in plan He was about to music and we were looking him the AG was I don't know he was maybe in In his mid to late 60s at that time and we thought man this guy can can can do all the what he does in a day play Be on this same bus ride and do everything and it's never tired So in a way he would be shaming at least me. I can't speak for the other fellows who out there And then we got back to America. I think the main thing I learned from him. We traveled a lot And then first two we went from New York to Detroit We went from Detroit to Seattle. We went from Seattle to Los Angeles went from Los Angeles To back to into the Midwest. I don't remember the exact place in another long drive and He was there He was on top of it. He was swinging every night and he just heapsed with a man with a lot of integrity about playing They you tell you the truth about how I said you were one thing he liked to do was he would ask your question What do you think you are Clifford Brown? So he would throw the name sometimes if you made him really mad He would call on Thelonius Martin Come save me from these young Something you can Can you can say if you're making an album, but you can't say it now In this form he would also Another thing he would do when he he would just name the people who we played with him like your trouble place You would say Lee Morgan Clifford Brown Freddie Hubbard Woody Shaw Brandy Brecker And now you so he would just put you in relief But no more experience, but I mean I love him He also was very familiar if you need something He got a center apartment building. You know me and my brother Bramford now and we lived in the same building with him and He was He had a lot of integrity about their music. He played with dynamics. You know, you were playing with dynamics Don't play your solo too long. You don't know whether all this is applauding because Because they like what you played them because you stopped Oh, you know, he had like funny little things he would say you never see an armor car follow in a purse You know just Yeah, it was a great experience. I'm always great. We gave me a chance to learn how to play Sounds pretty magical. Yeah, yeah, he was something You know Yeah You You You