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"It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."

"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

"Personally, I think young musicians need to learn to play more than one style. Jazz can only enhance the classical side, and classical can only enhance the jazz. I started out playing classical, because you have to have that as a foundation."

"I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with."

"Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived."
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"I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal."

"It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project."

"I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things."
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