Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
I always approach music by thinking about the person I'm playing with and listening to the way they play and trying to enhance whatever is going on.
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.