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My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy - a boarding school in Michigan - for a year, and then I went to college for a year at The Boston Conservatory and landed the 'Spring Awakening' tour midway through my freshman year, which was pretty cool.

I had gone to the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City.

My brother had a big band in high school; after that we continued to play together, eventually forming a group called the Jazz Brothers, that recorded for Riverside Records.

I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

I went to Holland Christian High School in Holland, Michigan, and to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.