Kenny Barron discusses his preferences in an instrument

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Kenny Barron discusses the inability to travel with a piano

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Kenny Barron talks about musical composition

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Q: “If you’re a flute player, you can get a gold flute and it’s worth twelve or fifteen thousand dollars – same as a piano perhaps – but they get a chance to play it when they’re working. You can’t play your own piano when you work…”

A: “Well, that's true, you know, and I think that's the difference between the pianist and other instrumentalists. You know, a bass player has his bass and he plays that same instrument always, you know. So I mean they become like one person. You know, he knows exactly how the bass is going to respond and you know, he knows how … what it feels like. But for pianist, like I said before, you know, each time you sit down at a different piano, it takes some adjustment.”