Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

More and more as time has gone on, I realize that playing is really more about listening than it is about playing.

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.