Occupation: Guitarist Birth: August 12, 1954
If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord..
If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue..
There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening..
Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you..
Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something rec….
...to me if it's anything, jazz is a verb-it's more like a process than it is a thing..
It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment..
Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work..
It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anythi….
From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.
Music is one big thing to me..
1962 to 1965, where suddenly the guitar became this icon of youth culture all over the world, thanks mostly to the Beatles. Add to that, that I saw A….
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music..
To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it..
The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things..
The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners..
My older brother Mike is an excellent trumpet player. By the time he was 12, he was playing around Kansas City in classical situations. He was alread….
I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.
The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice..
Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place..
Smokin' at the Half Note is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play..