Most Of What I Listen To Now

Most Of What I Listen To Now Is Mainstream Jazz From 1935 Right Up To And Including Early Bebop And Cool Jazz.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.

If You Look At Music, You See Theme, Variation, You See Symmetry, Asymmetry, You See Structure, And These Are Related To Skills In The Real World.

When You're Working In Front Of An Audience, You Have Incentive To Excel.

Most Blues Don't Have A Beginning, Middle, Or End. You Just Cut A Couple Slices Of Blues.