It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.
I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there is always something more to learn.
A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.
I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.
We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.
The musicians in Chicago gave me my vocation, but New York calls to a jazz musician, for sure. You want to test your mettle.
You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.