From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

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

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

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.

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

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

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