Music And Culture Are Intrinsically Improvisational, Existential.

To Some Degree, Yeah, Because I Have To Play A Certain Number Of Originals That Might Be Considered Avant-garde Material. I Realize Though, That Only A Few People In The Audience Actually Know What That Music Is, Or Understand It.

I Can't See Any Separation Between My Music And My Life. I Play Pretty Much Race Music: Its About What Happened To My Father, To Me, And What Can Happen To My Kids.

Music And Culture Are Intrinsically Improvisational, Existential.

It Was A Particularly Interesting And Exciting Time, And The European Political And Artistic Establishment Was Turned On By The Civil Rights Movement And The Artistic Revolution That Was Becoming A Part Of Jazz.

In America, For A Brief Time, People Who Followed John Coltrane Were Studied And Considered Important, But It Didn't Last Long. The Result Is That The Kind Of Music I Played In The '60's Is Completely Dismissed In This Country As A Wrong Turn, A Suicidal Effort.