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.

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

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.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

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