Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.
Music is one big thing to me.
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing.
Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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.