Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.

Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.