I hate the way chorus boxes sound

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

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

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.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.