My dad loves jazz and plays sax and clarinet. My mother says jazz sounds like musicians "making it up as they go along."

I never got it either… until I wrote That Hits the Spot.

Blending hints of Boz Scaggs, Dave Stewart, Candy Dulfer and Kenny G, it paints a smoky, late-night backstreet bar when bars were smoky.

At 18, when I was learning Eddie Van Halen riffs, writing a jazz song would’ve been laughable. But with a dad like mine — and knowing Eddie’s father also played sax and clarinet — maybe jazz was always closer than I thought. Check out the full version of 'That Hits the Spot.'