“My goal is that it’s always a quest for more knowledge. I actually started playing the oboe when I was in fourth grade, which I continued all the way through college. I got a scholarship to college playing oboe. When I was 13, I had been listening to this piece that my mom had of this flugelhorn player, Chuck Mangione, who was a legit jazz player for a while, but then he got into that fusion jazz movement in the ’70s. My grandparents, who I was living with at the time, had a trumpet in the b...