My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was already an amazing talent.

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

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

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.

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