Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.
Music is what you notice when it's no longer in your presence.
I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.
I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly
I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.