Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'
I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.
I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
