There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.
Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.
Music is one big thing to me.
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.