Originally posted by Nick G:
just curious, what sort of music do u do Chas?
I'm rather eclectic musically but everything is pretty jazz oriented. What I write, what I play, and what I listen to, are sometimes quite different. I spent a good deal of my early musical life as a poor man's Jimmy Smith and a would-be Oscar Peterson if playing piano (never had his chops, of course). These days I mostly write (and arrange) with most of my stuff sounding like the background music on the weather channel or a Honda commercial (despised my many, ignored by most, loved by very few). I guess it's somewhere between contemporary jazz and what used to be known as jazz fusion.
So in answer to your original question, nothing of any musical consequence. It's more about not playing stuff I don't like (love jazz waltz, hate waltzes; love blues, hate "Mississippi Delta" blues; love jazz and rock organ, hate theatre organ; love classical, hate opera; love Willie Nelson, hate Country; etc., etc.). Is it getting clearer? Not to me.
chas