They'll also tour next summer. His light-hearted multidirectional trio with friends and fellow masters Steve Swallow, bass, and Bill Stewart, drums, was burning at New Morning in Paris last week. He prefers to think he's ''not in the same category as Phish. Not that there's anything wrong with Phish. They play elements of jazz and they wouldn't exist without it, but it's not jazz.
People dance to jam bands, and that's great.
I suppose I'd prefer to think that the brainier kids go for my stuff.