A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.
We all played bad before we played good.
My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.