I started playing when I was 6 on piano, 7 on the brass, and I started because I loved the feeling that music gave me and I wanted to be able to make that feeling.

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The very first tune I learnt was Merrily We Roll Along, but the first jazz piece I learnt was Basin Street Blues.

If you mean music teacher, yes, Neil Goff, he was also a minister at our local church and played trombone.

As a musician I always wanted to be a jazz musician, and I have not only tried but do play many other genres. I have performed with symphony orchestras, played on rock and pop albums, but always wanted to be a jazz musician.

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Don Burrows asked me to join his quintet when I was 16. I ran late into [music] class, tripped and fell, there were instruments everywhere, then my teacher introduced me to Don Burrows. For the next six years I was a regular member of his quintet.

I don't believe in regrets, in expending energy saying 'I wish I hadn't done it'. I've even written a song called No Regret.

The years spent skipping school while I learned my craft.

The 130 cars I've owned. If you want to lose money, buy a car and just wait a bit - actually you don't even need to wait a bit. I usually own about half a dozen cars although I'm down to three at the moment [a BMW 750, a Lexus and a BMW Z4].

It's all OK. No matter what happens, it's all for the good.

One of the great skills to learn is if something doesn’t go as planned, which is what we call a mistake, to know how to deal with that and make it apart of the performance and make it so it doesn’t detract from the performance. We’re all human and we all make mistakes but you can make a mistake where you do something musically so that it doesn’t detract from what’s going on.

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Focus on why you play music. The joy and the passion you have for it rather than what if. That’s what makes you nervous, saying ‘What if’

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I don’t know, lots and that’s because there’s always one I’ll forget. All the brass (13), all the saxophones (6), piano, double bass, guitar.

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Very little, they were wonderful facilitators and supported me enormously but that’s after I expressed the desire to do it. They didn’t influence me to have that desire at all.

Thank you for liking the music and being a fan.

To be able to eat a 1 kg burrito in under 2 minutes. It’s useless because I’m not allowed, my wife said I’m not doing that. So I’ve got this talent I can’t use.

No I don’t sing in the shower but I think. I think a lot.

I don’t know because I have a very long list of things I would be if I wasn’t a musician. I’d be a professional pilot, I already am, a professional sailor, I’d run some sort of agency in the entertainment industry.

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I wouldn’t call them ambitions, I’m not sure I ever had ambitions in the true sense of the word. I was always about now, what I could do now, and I had things I always would have loved to do but I never made an ambition. They were things I just thought would naturally follow.

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