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.

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

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

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

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