I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.

Music chooses her musicians.

Jon Deitemyer is the drummer everyone wants right now.

I have a good life. I have nothing to complain about, and the music is just too interesting.

Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.