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Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.

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

My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

I was exposed to jazz early on.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

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.