Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it b….

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me..

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me..

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms,' all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is….

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to….

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity..

Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of ….

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation..

I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers..

There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition o….

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like ….

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home..

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be….

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real i….

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex..

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people..

Everybody in America is angry about something..

For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalist….

I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older,….