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.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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

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

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.

I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound