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

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

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.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.