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

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

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

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

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

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.

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.