 Burnett incorporates many elements from his classical studies on saxophone and clarinet, along with his knowledge as a trained composer and arranger of music, into the current improvisational and compositional language he presents to listeners.Burnett does not believe that music is limited in the way that most of the commercial marketing of it often presents to the majority of the world.He also believes that any person of his generation and age, (or younger,) can only "get so close" to the jazz music that was made before they were born without having a direct relationship with a person who was actually living during that particular musical era.