I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.
Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.
