When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.
The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.
I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.
I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.