I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'
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So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.
I was really a nerd, and I was really more of a jazz nerd. So when I had my chance to put on something, most of the time it was going to be jazz, or gospel, or something like that.
So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.
I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.