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

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

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.

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

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

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.

Jazz groups have to make a living any way.