Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.
I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
I think that's what I love about jazz is that you can do what you want, and you're allowed to mess up.
I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.
Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.