I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

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

Improvisation is a compositional method.

I've been to the studio several times, and it's not that I'm not happy with what I've got, but each time I come away, I feel that I've learned something that I want to work on.

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.