Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

A first love always occupies a special place.

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.

I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.