Sometimes people have this notion that improvisation is simply intuitive leaping into the unknown.

I'm a goof, man.

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.

Karl Johnson, my first piano player at Milt Trenier's, he just swung really hard and gave me a sense of really belonging to the jazz scene.

Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.