Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.