My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.
From Christian Scott
The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.
I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage.
Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.
The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.
If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.
We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.
I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.
You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
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