This experience has been frustrating and challenging but also good for him because it's real life - he will get injuries during his career and have to deal with them.
It's challenging, innovative stuff, and it likely would sound very different had Mr. Stanko been born in Brooklyn likewise if Miles Davis had been born in Warsaw (in which case he would have been named Kilometers Davis.) Would that the United Nations get all the countries of the world together harmonizing the way that jazz seems to be able to.