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

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

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

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.

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

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

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.