Um, here's another great one. Uh, what would you say, this is from Buster. What's up Buster?

What would you say is the genre? Uh, you have learnt this is from Buster, what's up Buster, what would you say is the genre you have learnt

the most from playing besides jazz? So I'll take a stab of this. I would say, well, if it's just

for like playing piano and for music, I would say classical, if that's a genre, I guess it's a genre.

Just because I spent a lot of time, I kind of started there, came up doing a lot of classical, really learned a lot of technical attributes of the instrument approaches and just theoretical stuff.

Certainly a lot of things that I was able to, I've been able to apply to my jazz playing.

But there's other genres that have informed perhaps more directly my playing.

I'm thinking of blues, gospel, funk, R&B, pop, Irish jig songs, no, okay, I was just thinking if you were

listening if you were listening to that. But I think, yeah, but I think classical, but that's just

very peculiar to me in terms of like that's just something I spent a lot of time and sort of ended up

being a big part of my technical thing and sort of theoretical approach. How about you, Adam?

Yeah, I would agree. So I don't think there's, I don't think there's any one genre that has

like been more valuable to my jazz playing. I consider, I really, I honestly, you know me, man. I don't like to put like hard lines on any of this stuff. I consider myself. Don't box me in, bro. You tell me that all the time. Dude, I know it's cliche, but I really do feel like I'm a musician. I make the music that I like, right? I make music that I think is good. Those are my criteria. I listen to music that I think is good. It doesn't really... It's so cheesy even hearing me say it out loud. No, this is great because you're like... You're trying to come across as totally non-dogmatic and open, but you're being super dogmatic about being non-dogmatic, right? I know. Well, you know, I'm an enigma wrapped up in a conundrum. But, no, seriously, I, I really, I, I, I, everything you mentioned classical R&B for sure, funk for sure is a huge part of my young development, especially. What about country and or Western? Do you consider those two distinct genres?

Country, country and Western. I'm like, what about just country? Or what about just Western?

No, they are different genres for sure. And actually, yeah, I think Hank Williams and Willie Nelson,

I listened to a lot of when I was in my early 20s, Ray Charles and his country albums,

which are really just sole albums, but with country songs and are so, so good.

Like that all, I mean, actually, you know, Ray Charles is one of the biggest piano influences

on me of anybody.

And, you know, I'm such a fan of his that, you know, that's what I'm saying.

It's like, I like people.

I like, I have my people that I like, you know what I mean?

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