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In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway.
I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
Why must the show go on?
Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
When you're working in front of an audience, you have incentive to excel.
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.
I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.
My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp.
You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
If I do a piece in my living room, if I practice it - and I have the tapes to prove this - it's not going to be as good as doing the same piece in front of an audience.
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.
