"I started playing at the country joints and clubs that featured jazz once a week and was paid $25US for the night. Then I moved on up to Harlem, playing in places where I was the only white guy in the clubs. I learned a lot, and met a lot of people, including Miles Davis.

"We'd play five or six sets a night and get paid fifty bucks. Then we played at the Apollo theater, and at dances all around the Harlem area...That's how I got a lot of my rhythm and blues influence."

-- Tico Torres, Rhythm Magazine, March 1989