Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

To me, Bill's musical heart is in Earthworks, in the jazz they are playing, in the acoustic kit.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.