It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

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.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.