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

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound

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

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

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