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.

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

Listening is the key to everything good in music.

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

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.

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

Somehow trumpet is the reference point for me it was actually my first instrument.