As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at best - at worst, those terms often serve as code words for what is in fact a cultural / political discussion more than a musical one.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

If jazz has to be termed as a wave, then music is a sea, but if the reflectors in the water is the chord.

I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.