I've been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

We were a band who made it very, very big. That's all.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.

When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.