I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

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.

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

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

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