The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
When we are on tour we also take chances.
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
Other times I say: I would very much like to try to do something with this music, but after playing for a few minutes, I have to break off.
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.