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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.
So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.
When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.
I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.
So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.
I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
I was totally into jazz in my teens.