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!

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.

We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

A chord is just the name of a sound.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.