The Brain on Jazz

far out man. touch: yeah, i'm actually a jazz guitar player, and strangely I've always like sax players the best (i.e. Eric Dolphy, Coltrane, Ornette Coleman). I thought it was because they played with their mouth. So i threw away my pick and play electric guitar with my fingers now, trying to get "mouth fingers". Its really opening up my playing. vision: Also I've always really gotten into music when I interpret it visually, either in an abstract quantitative sense (seeing patterns of timbres, forming mathematical grids), or qualitatevly (having silly images play themselves out for irrational reasons). other: also there is something really neat about when a jazz musician is "on"; the notes just pick themselves off the stream, I think at that point it really becomes linguistic- the difference between a foreigner trying to learn a certain language, and a native speaking it with eloquence off the cuff. HOTCHA!