A lot of people in the jazz community are looking at how much notoriety we're getting. And we're an inspiration to a lot of young people, because now….

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz..

That's a skill that I'm proud of: to be able to be a jazz musician and go a bit crazy sometimes and other times be able to pull it all in and lay it ….

It's funny, now that we have Twitter and Facebook and stuff, you can really see how you affect fans. Before all that, fans couldn't tell you exactly ….

For the most part, 99 percent of jazz is boring; you've heard it before. People aren't doing anything creative that's extremely modern. They tend to ….

Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people….

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce..

I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel l….

My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black ….

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Be….

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it….

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or "what you're doing isn't jazz," are just scared because they can't do it. A ….