That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
Bop is no love-child of jazz.
You've got to learn your instrument.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
Jazz is the language of the emotions.
Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.
Everything I do is Mingus.
Jazz music is a language of the emotions.
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.