“Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique sit…” — Roy Ayers

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.