I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).