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

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

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.

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

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.