The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

People call to keep me abreast of what's going on.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.