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 am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

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.