I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

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.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

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

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

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

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.