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

I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young

Players get to that intermediate level where they can already play pretty good, and that's kind of a dangerous period because they tend to start playing only the things that they can play, rather than the things they can't.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

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.

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