We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups.

I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

We all played bad before we played good.