If You Look At Music,

By The Mid-70s, I Wanted To Get Out Of The Business. I Was Tired Anyway.

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.

One Of My Earliest Memories... I Knew Three Full Verses Of The Star Spangled Banner When I Was Seven Or Eight Years Old. And One Of The Nuns Discovered This Phenomenon And I Was Actually Sent Around From Classroom To Classroom To Do The Whole Thing.

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.

Most Of What I Listen To Now Is Mainstream Jazz From 1935 Right Up To And Including Early Bebop And Cool Jazz.