The Bandstand Is A Sacred Place.

People Have Taken Time Out Of Their Day And Spent Their Money To Come Sit Down At A Concert. And It's Jazz Music-it's Not Easy For Them To Get To It. I Don't Want Them Ever To Feel That I'm Taking Their Presence Lightly.

There's Always The Cliche Of The Choir Shouting And Clapping. Ok, You Have To Do That, But There's Also Introspective Parts, Parts Where You Just Follow Someone That's Preaching. There's Lots Of Different Emotions And Moods That A Service Requires.

When It Comes To Songs And Music, Yeah, People Love To Sing And Dance And Play Music And Tunes, And That Stream Of Consciousness That Exists In Music, Nobody Knows Where That Comes From.

I'm Not A Person Who Writes Really Abstract Things With Oblique References. I Look At Abstraction Like I Look At Condiments. Give Me Some Tabasco Sauce, Some Ketchup, Some Mayonnaise. I Love All Of That. Put It On A Trumpet. I've Just Got To Have The Ketchup And Tabasco Sauce. That's My Attitude About Musical Philosophy.

I'll Write Down And Catalogue All The Different Devices That Are Americana To Me, And I Try To Have A Historic Depth And Breadth And Also The Things That We Do In Our Time, The Type Of Vamps And Chants, Things That Are Available To Us.