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.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

I hate the way chorus boxes sound

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.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.