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Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
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... →
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 fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in... →
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... →
Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I... →
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