Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

I don't research anything.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.