Jazz is my adventure. I'm after new chords, new ways of syncopating, new figures, new runs. How to use notes differently. That's it. Just using notes differently.
A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
I never though much about race.
I played the wrong wrong notes.
The piano ain't got no wrong notes.
I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.