They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Because people really got tired, too, of the same old formatted sort of thing, and the same old formatted music.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!