When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

I'm very glad to have met you. I like your playing very much.