I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me..

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back ….

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time..

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument..

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose..

I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years b….

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on ….

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I ….

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addresse….

I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't re….

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am….

They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because….

There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communic….

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called m….

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of ….

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge ab….

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend..

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open..