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.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

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

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

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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

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