I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been….

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place..

I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner..

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.

I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomat….

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities..

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz..

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!.

I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on..

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level..

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening..

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..

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….