I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.