Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is