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

I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

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.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

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