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

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 just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

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

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

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

A first love always occupies a special place.