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

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 think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

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

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

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.