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

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.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

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

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.

Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.

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