Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.