I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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.

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.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

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

People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a Jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.