Sublime

what you do when no one is watching is the foundation that you build your life and career on. Build it on solid ground and you’ll be around until the end of time.

In 1959, the modal sounds of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue album captured a fresh, different vibe and pushed the art form forward into a new direction. This project showed how jazz improvisation could be based on tightly defined scales (or modes) and thus achieve effects not possible via the expansive chord-based improvisations of earlier jazz ensembl

When we close ourselves off to knowledge, we close ourselves off to our potential and true human connection.

When you get the chance to open doors that have traditionally been slammed shut, it’s important that you hold the door open for the next person to walk through. It’s not about feeding your ego with a list of accolades; it’s about continuing to pave the path that has been set before you.

Ahmad Jamal trio

I really didn’t have an agent until Michael; I just had a lawyer, Bert Fields.

Music, and art as a whole, is a strange beast. You can’t see it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, but you sure can feel it.

1. Airto Moreira - Brazilian percussionist.


2. Keith Jarrett - renowned jazz pianist.


3. George Benson - American guitarist and singer.


4. Ron Carter - jazz double bassist.


5. Miles Davis - legendary jazz trumpeter, he bought a live album.


6. Wes Montgomery - jazz guitarist, the record was chosen at his father's request.

If you take a good look around, you’ll find that a lot of people ideate but not many of them execute. It’s a long road from ideation to execution. You have to be emotionally ready to put the required energy into whatever it is you are striving for because, if you don’t, you’ll hop into a vehicle with no gas. For many of us out there, we can’t affor