A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.
I learn something new every day.
Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.
You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.
We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.
I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.
