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

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles

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.

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

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.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is