I don't need much coaxing.
There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
What's interesting about a person without problems?
I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.