Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.