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You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else.
The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.
It's just about really being sensitive, and trying to play a music that is about music.
What I've been trying to do for years is to get the music played on a station other than jazz stations, you know, to expand the audience.
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.
A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.
We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.
The way we look at it, everything is a sound.
Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.
I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times ... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!
You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.
Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet.
I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.
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.
Play as well as you can all the time, and if you're truthful to your thing, you'll succeed.
A chord is just the name of a sound.
