Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

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.

Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.