I don't research anything.

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

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.

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

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.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.