In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

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

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

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