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 don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

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

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

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