When You're Working In Front Of An

Most Blues Don't Have A Beginning, Middle, Or End. You Just Cut A Couple Slices Of Blues.

When You're Working In Front Of An Audience, You Have Incentive To Excel.

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.

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.