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

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

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

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

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

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 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.