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

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.

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.

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

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

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted