The trumpet is forceful.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.