“After three or four days, one minute he’d be sounding like Sonny Rollins but with his own take on it, and then the next minute you’d be going, ‘What the hell is he playing?’. It was just awesome, man. I don’t think he ever lost that stuff. The more he played, the deeper it got. I think everybody played to this idea that he wanted to be a bit more safe and mainstream, but actually, he didn’t want that. What he really wanted was for the band to be free, but it was hard with his choices of tunes.”