"I started on the trombone. My dad’s a trombone player—he was the bass trombone with the Cleveland Orchestra—and I’ve always liked that range. As a kid, I was listening to all kinds of music and then I heard Led Zeppelin. ‘The Lemon Song.’ When I heard that tune, at the end of it where John Paul Jones is freely playing the jazz thing, I said, ‘I got to do that.’ Not long after that I discovered Stanley Clarke. Then Weather Report.

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