In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

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.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

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.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.