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I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.