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.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

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.

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.

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

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

The trumpet is forceful.