When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

I'll just sit at the piano a lot an play like through different chord exercises and kind of just throwing my hands down on the piano from one chord to the next to see what happens.

You never get it figured out. You just keep playing.

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.