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

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

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

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

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

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.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.