I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.