...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.

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

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.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

Music is one big thing to me.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

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