In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

Jazz is an octopus. It will take whatever it can use and it will work with it.

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.