The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportunity to find out if it spoke to you? If you get exposed to it enough, you might find a taste for it.

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.