I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Music is one big thing to me.

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.

And if I ever DO see [Kenny G] anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind, and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound