DS: What I like about playing in Europe is: the audiences tend to be a little more sophisticated and you can play a much wider range of material than you can get away with in the States.
They tend to accept more. especially on a festival like this, there is such a wide variety of artists; every possible description of music; stretching the limists of the definition of Jazz, which is great. That's the way it should be. It's a big umbrella.

DS: Yes, I did a lot of it in my house. I didn't intend to do that. I started out with the idea of making demos at home. I started the sound...because it really represented the way I was feeling at that time. Very natural, without a lot of effects. Also, I think that I got a more off-handed aspect of my playing, because I wasn't thinking of the pressure of being in the studio.

DS: Yes, you like it or you don't. That's it. I like that quality, I mean a lot of it stems from my preferance for people's demos. That's what I do for a living and my friend do records as well, so I get a chance to hear people's demos before they are mixed. I tend to really like the rawness of demos. There is a real immediacy to it. There is a production value in hiphop that is very unaffected, dry and it sounds like demos and I like that.

I:When you wake up in the morning and you see your saxophone: what do you think?

DS: Well, I usually don't sleep next to it *boyishsmile*.
Lately I ve been trying not to think so much about the instrument, because at least for me at this point, I'd rather think about the music. If I get too focused on the the saxophone, it is easy to get the technical aspects of the saxophone. I mean, I'm a long way from ever mastering the instrument, even coming close to it, but - I'm ging through a period when it's better for me mot to be around it...I still practise, but not as sucessively as I used to. I find it sometimes, when I've been a way from it for a while, I come on things by accident just becaude I haven't played. That is a very useful way to get to other parts of your mind, the creative process that you wouldn't normally [think of]. You master certain things and you have the tendency to go for what you know whereas if you haven't played, you are searching. And sometimes you fall on things that you wouldn't normally do. It goes in circles.