"Liza used to tell me any time that you can work and perform on your birthday, it’s kind of the best thing to do because it is the birthday wish come true. "
"Once you get a feel for the audience after two or three songs, you kind of take them on this music journey and you're a deejay of your own music."
"The tragedy in this movie is that at the heart of it is this unrequited love story, which is a very, almost adolescent kind of pain. But that pain is magnified by the pain of the catastrophe in the background."
"I just felt that I became much more in touch with the kind of music that I wanted to play, the kind of playing I want to do and the kinds of projects that I find really engaging."
"Am I just here because I'm Black or am I here because I'm talented? I tend to be the only black person in the room. I see that changing."
Happy New Year to everyone. Very soon we'll begin new interviews and highlights for 2022. But before we do, here is my list of the Top 10 of 2021:
#1: The Return of Live Performances
There isn't any one show...
"Working on it helped me process my unconscious. But I don't want them to be distracted by it, by me. I want my music to be a vehicle for them to access their own unconscious."
"To be performing such an extraordinary range of music is both a great joy and it's a challenge, but most of all it's a tremendous privilege."
"There has been a framing of jazz in a way for sometime where like it's not for young people. It's not cool. I always want to push back on that one."
"Whether you're a musician or a writer everything comes down to story and narrative. And that's why I like to call myself a storyteller more than a singer or a musician."