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":2,"featured_media":557524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,210488,215896,13397,7180,210489,22943],"class_list":{"0":"post-557523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-flea","13":"tag-frank-ocean","14":"tag-jimmy-fallon","15":"tag-late-night-tv","16":"tag-red-hot-chili-peppers","17":"tag-the-tonight-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}