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.

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

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.

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.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is