"When you're dealing with these amazing artists on stage who have these different ways of expression, really the music can go anywhere."
Beasley, Blanchard, Parlato and Stritch
Our favorite performances including Cabaret, Classical, Musicals, Operas and Plays
"I feel that there's a stigma around jazz and big band music that needs to be broken."
"Chucho knows that to get the best out of somebody in his own work he has to give up a part of himself and let it pay forward to the next step of the process."
"It's not a jazz record. It's not a theater record. It's our record and it's very emblematic of the music that we enjoy listening to and the music that we enjoy creating together."
"It goes back to that whole thing of find a balance between all of those things, you know, allowing yourself to be in the moment and allowing yourself to be free to respond to things that you may not have thought of."
"There's something so powerful about this understatement and intimacy and kind of allowing people to feel all the different facets. It doesn't have to be something obvious, it can be something that's a little bit intriguing."
"The one thing I do know is the rest of my days will be about the mission, the various missions. They're all connected. I can no longer just play because it's fun or take a gig because it pays well."
"I want to try to find the spirituality behind Coltrane's playing. I want to copy the feeling that he had back at this time because that's what's truly sticks out."