I learned some classical music history, which I had done quite a bit at of Performing Arts. But I got some more with a great teacher named David Noon, who I've been in contact with quite a bit in recent years.

Sometimes I say to my students, "We get to come and listen to our favorite recordings and try to learn from them and emulate that and hopefully we can inspire other people the way we've been inspired."

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

I was also sitting in from the middle of senior year of high school at Sweet Basil, it was a great club in New York.

I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

I definitely had some moments, where, "Wow, these were some hard chords" on some gig.