If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.
Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and maybe violin or something like that. Or sax - I mean, I'm definitely having some sax. That's just what I love. It's going to be jazz-rock stuff. That's what I'm aiming for.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.
Jazz infers a style, but creative music has a wider field and wider specification about it. We know it from people like Scott Joplin and on through Bessie Smith.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.