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.

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

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

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.

Music is one big thing to me.

My first relationship to any kind of musical situation is as a listener.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.