I'm the stuff men are made of!
I miss playing with Miles. I did play with him a little while before he left the planet, but even at that time I longed to maybe do some things together.
Jazz is an endless source of ideas, because you can use anything. You can play operatic arias. You can incorporate them into jazz. You can play gypsy music and incorporate it into jazz. You can European classical and you can incorporate it into jazz. You can use anything and jazz it up, as they used to say.
Many jazz artists go to L. A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.
What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without. "
The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.
And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.
There is a huge body of business evidence now showing that energy savings give better service at lower cost with higher profit. We have to tear down barriers to successful markets and we have to create incentives to enter them.