When I was four, I started taking lessons from my mom. That's pretty much how I started..

I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an amazing place, because there was so much….

I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedl….

As far as the people that have inspired me, they're the people that I have played with the most. For example, the record that I made called Virtue, t….

My dad would play me all of these records: Miles Davis records, John Coltrane records, Bill Evans records, a lot of jazz records. My first exposure t….

My dad, was, by trade, he had a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He's a huge, huge jazz fan. He used to travel all the time for projects, and he used….

I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as mu….

Basically, my mother is a piano teacher, and she actually teaches piano at Yamaha School of Music today. She's a really, really amazing human being a….

"Jazz" to begin with, is a really bad word... all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is….

My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was con….

Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire ….

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself..

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing..

I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing..