So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.