Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.

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.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

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

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

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.