We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
From Kurt Elling
Chicago has a burly, action-oriented but still self-assured and relaxed confidence to its stride. The city has a lot of wide-open space and all the possibilities that suggests. There's a lot of horizontal grandeur here.
In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.
Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.
We all know that jazz demands a cultivation of the mind.
Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.
I've tried to learn as much as I can about the great jazz singers to understand what makes them important, vital artists, but there is always something more to learn.
Why limit yourself to one discipline or field of study?
Each of the CDs prior to 'Flirting With Twilight' were more like roller-coaster rides.
My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.
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