I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

Music is one big thing to me.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.