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.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.

There has to be a real strong reason to do something with someone for me.

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