It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

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.

Just like Coca-Cola, NYU is a brand. We're a dream school, the school of [TV series] Felicity, and we make news.

I'm aiming that towards people, towards humanity, not even just musicians. Because this is about life, not about musicians.

He just blew me away and what it taught me was that Miles didn't hear it as a mistake.