I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.

I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.

I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. Being so much on the road, when you have a couple of weeks off, you're likely to avoid sitting at the piano, and taping, and giving yourself more work to do.

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.