The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

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

Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play.