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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 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.

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

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.

My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.