I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

The big tall buildings, the jazz, the traffic, all of it is communicated through the music. It's incredible. You feel like you are there.