I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.
I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
I would say that jazz is my own language.
I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
In my view a jazz musician is a great musician.
My music is jazz.