With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea.

I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

My music has always been strong in melodic content.