There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.

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

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

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

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going.

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

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.