love of jazz<\/a>. After emerging on the late-night show\u2019s stage in a handstand, Flea explained that he began playing the trumpet when he was \u201ca little kid.\u201d <\/p>\n\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI was in love with it,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to be Dizzy Gillespie when I grew up. I met Dizzy Gillespie when I was a kid. He hugged me into his suit. I still remember the smell of his cologne, his nice suit, and his kindness with me. Trumpet was my first instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHe recounted getting into the bass in high school and only revisiting the trumpet \u201cevery once in a while\u201d after that. \u201cIt\u2019s always alive in my head and my heart,\u201d he noted. \u201cA few years ago I decided I\u2019m just going to play trumpet every day, no matter what, and after a couple of years of doing it I\u2019m going to make a record and what comes, comes. It wasn\u2019t really about a means to an end. It was just the process, the learning process. And I\u2019m so happy that I had the opportunity to do it.\u201d <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist will release his debut solo album, Honora, later this week Flea stopped…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":678678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,92856,148260,1029,63863,36762,16683,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-678677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-flea","tag-frank-ocean","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-late-night-tv","tag-red-hot-chili-peppers","tag-the-tonight-show","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116285044775198954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}