Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.
Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.
Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.
I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.
I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.