We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.
Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.