If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
Sponsors and networks will really go all out and simply evaluate people on the basis of talent.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.
You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.
The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.
Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
