Goods Times
hat kind of person was Mulgrew Miller, Richie?
Mulgrew was the most amazing person I’ve ever met. He was one of the most respected jazz musicians on the scene, and such a kind, friendly, fun-loving person. He didn’t drink, he didn’t do drugs, he didn’t smoke, but he didn’t look down upon people that did these things. People have to live their lives the way they live their lives, and he lived his the way he lived his. He would introduce me as his left-hand man because that’s the bass side of the piano.
How do you go about translating a personality like that into your record?
A part of me was like, ‘I just want to do his music justice’, and I was a tiny bit
