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

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

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.

You play ensemble things that you had no idea you were going to play two minutes before.

And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

The trumpet is forceful.