Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.

My name means 'hope' in Spanish and it's a name I want to live up to.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

When I read, you know, a rough neighborhood of Portland, I'm like - what? - they didn't have kombucha bars there?

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.