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've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

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!

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.

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

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