My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.
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.
The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.
Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.
I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound