Pastoral Resources

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I couldn't get my album played over the so-called smooth jazz stations. Jazz stations would not play it. You don't always know who you're making that soul connection with.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.

Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

One of the things I like about jazz, kid, is I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.