You Can Practice To Learn

When You Struggle To Reach For Something You Don't Know, That's Where Most Of The Interesting Stuff Is.

There Are A Lot Of Records Coming Out, In Every Field Of Music, Not Just Jazz.

I'm One Of The People Who Was A Pioneer In Encouraging Musicians, Early In The Game, To Get Interested In Technology, And Now All The Musicians Are Getting Into It.

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 Keep Recycling And Repackaging Music That I've Done In The Past, As Though I Can't Write Anymore. Like, Okay, I'm Done With That. But I Need To Kind Of Prod Myself Again Into Come On, Herbie, Get Off Your Duff And Start Writing Some New Music.