I'm a jazz lover and he's been in the business a long time.

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

We deal with these sorts of things all the time. This is business as usual as far as we're concerned.

For the first time since I started in this business 21 years ago, I have not only felt uninspired, but I've also felt discouraged.

It is also jazz mass. It is in jazz idiom. There are definitely some Latin-based pieces.

Our whole dynamic is kind of based around that push and pull. Marco is a very skilled jazz musician and I'm rock oriented. When we first started out, that's the way it was, he was very jazz, and I was very rock, and I think that's what has made the sound and the album special. But we've evolved to retain both of those features within ourselves as a result of playing together.