When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.
I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.
I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.