I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level,

I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted

I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do

I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.