Here’s a moment from the Submersion sessions in Los Angeles. We’d just finished tracking the sax solo and hit playback in the control room. You can see my engineer locking into the groove as the horn opens up. For this solo I was going for the emotion and the energy more than anything technical. I wanted the horn to feel like a voice—leaning into the intensity of the groove, then pulling back into space when it needed to breathe. The track lives in that space between late‑nig