When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.

The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

I think jazz is a phenomenal creative force, because it's one man, one vote as you're playing, but it's a collective thing, what you're doing. You're listening to all the musicians around you and you're working within that structure.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.