I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people..

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios..

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can af….

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their us….

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point….

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison..

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians..

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music..

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing..

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work….

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard..

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business..

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The ….

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity ….

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody..

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them..

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me..

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work..

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much..

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening..

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other ….