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Jazz is about being in the moment.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly.

I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.