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

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.

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.

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

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

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

Music is one big thing to me.