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

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.

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

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

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

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

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