I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.
I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.
You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.