These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.

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

A chord is just the name of a sound.

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

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.

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