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How did you get your start as a jazz musician? I kinda started liking jazz right away... I started playing in Los Angeles... Santa Monica, CA where I grew up. When I was 11 years old I started playing electric bass. My brother was an electric bass player... he stopped playing so there was this electric bass living underneath the bed... and you know being the younger brother, you gotta go play with your older brother’s bass cause he’s not playing very much. You gotta try to get as good as possible. Have you always been into jazz? Not right away. I mean... going to the record store was just something I did. Probably starting when I was like 6 years old... I would go to the record store and buy records. All kinds of AM radio hits and whatever. I had an older brother so... he had a more advanced taste in music.... just because he was older. So it just started being like Led Zeppelin and Cream... which get you to the blues... which lead to jazz right away. I was always kind of inspired by technical music so then when somebody gave me a Miles Davis album and a Coltrane album... and especially Jaco the electric bass player... when I heard his story... I wanted to be able to do that. I was probably like 12 or 13 when that happened... so I was pretty much cloning Jaco as much as possible when I was a teenager.
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