Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
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.
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.