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.

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

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

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

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.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.