“When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks …” — Roy Ayers

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

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.

Now I get exposure first with people directly in the clubs. This is a unique situation for me.

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.