I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

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

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

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.

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

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.