We all played bad before we played good.
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.
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'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.