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.

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.

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

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!