Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

Everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

The best way to be, is to do.

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

Flexibility is an essential part of Jazz. It's what gives Jazz music the ability to combine with all other types of music and not lose its identity.

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.

The first jazz musician was a trumpeter, Buddy Bolden, and the last will be a trumpeter, the archangel Gabriel.