A chord is just the name of a sound.
What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.
Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
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.