Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.

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.

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 just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

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.