World Peace Is No Longer Some Pie-in-the-sky

Music Is The Tool To Express Life - And All That Makes A Difference.

Clare Fischer Was A Major Influence On My Harmonic Concept. He And Bill Evans, And Ravel And Gil Evans, Finally. You Know, That's Where It Really Came From. Almost All Of The Harmony That I Play Can Be Traced To One Of Those Four People And Whoever Their Influences Were.

I Don't Mind Being Classified As A Jazz Artist, But I Do Mind Being Restricted To Being A Jazz Artist. My Foundation Has Been In Jazz, Though I Didn't Really Start Out That Way. I Started In Classical Music, But My Formative Years Were In Jazz, And It Makes A Great Foundation.

Miles' Sessions Were Not Typical Of Anybody Else's Sessions. They Were Totally Unique.

Being Vulnerable Is Allowing Yourself To Trust. That's Hard For A Lot Of People To Do. They Feel A Lot More Secure If They Kind Of Put Walls Around Themselves. Then They Don't Have To Trust Anybody But Themselves. But To Allow You To Trust Not Only Yourself But Trust Others Means - Is What's Required To Be Vulnerable, And To Have That Kind Of Trust Takes Courage.