If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

Most guys at Berklee are going to wind up truck drivers.

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly

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.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

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.

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