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Well, I've had a lot of different things happen that at the time
meant a lot. I mean, Harry Connick, Jr., while very young at that point, I was
just playing gigs around the city and thought I'd never do something that big.
I always thought, "well, okay, I'll be the one who never actually got one of those, quote-unquote,
'big gigs.' I've been here forever," which was actually only three years and I was only 26
it wasn't that long, but at the time it felt like everyone else was doing so many things!
Poor me! But that was -- that was huge, playing with him, because within the
first few months we're recording "When Harry Met Sally." So one minute I'm playing at Lola's
on 22nd Street, next minute we're having lunch with Rob Reiner. So it was real
fast. So that was a great experience. Being in Wynton Marsalis's band was important
to me. It was a couple of years, but the amount of stuff we did in that short amount of time,
it was incredible, and I love that, and it still feels like a family,
that group of musicians so that was important to me. But I mean, all the
experiences I've had are important for different reasons. It's so hard to single
things out but "When Harry Met Sally" was the first time I made, you know, did a film score,
of something so big, it was all brand new stuff, making records was brand new.
Being on television shows was brand-new. Being around celebrities, you know, it was brand
new. So all that was cool at the time. Now it's not about who, "I wanna play
with so and so, I wanna play with so and so," you know, now it's just, I wanna play
music I write, and hopefully have it work as far as musically. So things change
along the way, which is beautiful to me.You know, the journey of it all.