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

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

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.

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

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.