Whose idea was Outlaws In Jazz [with Daunik Lazro, Didier Levallet and Denis Charles]?
Daunik’s. He more or less put that group together. He suggested we play some repertoire associated with free jazz – I’d already played a couple of free jazz pieces with Daunik on Hotel Hotel – each musician brought along things he wanted to play. I brought the Ornette piece “Unknown Artist”. Personally, I think the Outlaws record came out too soon. We should have released something after we’d done several concerts, instead of getting a group together in a studio to record and then stringing together a set of dates to promote the album. We played a lot of concerts and many of them were much better than what’s on the album – I’m speaking mainly about what I did on that album: everyone else is wonderful, but I don’t think I’m on the same level. I’m not usually all that self-critical, but compared to the atmosphere we had live, I’m not satisfied with what I did. So my advice to musicians is to gig first and record afterwards. Or record live, like we did with the quartet with Jacques, Franc
