But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

Miles Davis had me play and he hired me the following week and after that, everything broke wide open.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.