“At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.”
![“For better or for worse, I think my approach to jazz is very traditional, in one sense, but is [also] very out of fashion today. It's about the musicians, and it's about that magic that happens in the moment.” quote by Jose James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/893/jose-james-22349_approach_for-better-or-for-worse-i-think-my-appro_2429982.jpg)
![“Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.” quote by Thelonious Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b90/thelonious-monk-12808_cat_man-that-cat-ornette-coleman-is-nuts-591_591526.jpg)
