Listening Is The Key To Everything Good

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.

Music Is What You Notice When It's No Longer In Your Presence.

As Much As I Have Done Collaborations Over The Years, I Am Actually Kind Of A Reluctant Partner.

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.

Jazz Demands That You Bring To It Things That Are Valuable To You, That Are Personal To You.