I am a romantic, I admit it.
Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.
If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.
Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.