The True Artform Is Being A Human

A Great Teacher Is One Who Realizes That He Himself Is Also A Student And Whose Goal Is Not Dictate The Answers, But To Stimulate His Students' Creativity Enough So That They Go Out And Find The Answers Themselves.

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.

It's Not Exclusive, But Inclusive, Which Is The Whole Spirit Of Jazz.

You Can Expand, Repeat, Even Change Keys And Do Other Things Electronically To Give Certain Elements And Phrases More Cohesiveness.

Jazz Has Borrowed From Other Genres Of Music And Also Has Lent Itself To Other Genres Of Music.