What I Look For In Musicians Is

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 Anything, Jazz Is A Verb ? It's More Like A Process Than It Is A Thing.

Music Is What You Notice When It's No Longer In Your Presence.

Jazz Music Will Continue To Thrive, Possibly In Unexpected Ways.

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 Already An Amazing Talent.

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.