Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999)[1] was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.[2] (wikipedia)
A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.
The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
These people are interested in a wide variety of music, and that's what we're into.
These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.
They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that.
They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.
We expect the listener to have, like, a movie going on when they hear us. That's what it's all about for us.
We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.
We just can't go and try to turn the clock back, that's not happening anymore. You've got to figure something else out.