I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.

The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.

Man, I just feel so fortunate to be a jazz musician at all. I have a hard time thinking of it any other way. It's such a fulfilling vocation. I love it.

I got my love of jazz from my stepfather, who was a jazz musician.

One doesn't have to scat to be a jazz singer.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.