The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.

It's a shame that jazz is now being turned into dried fruit. It's becoming quantized, diced and defined. It's becoming an idiom. To me if it's anything, jazz is a verb ? it's more like a process than it is a thing.

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

I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles