I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

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.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

Music is one big thing to me.

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.

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