My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.
When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'
The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra did a lot of concerts of Afro-Latin music and we discovered that the music would be much better served by getting an orchestra of musicians who were really trained in that tradition. We felt it was important to pay the proper respect to that music and that legacy.
I've always loved Dave as a man and as a musician ... he's always just a gentleman, a man with a dignity.
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