I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.