While I won't run right out and play "Round Midnight" in a chicken hat for Chas, he does do the "wise ole sage" thing occasionally, and hit a topic right on the head.

His description of the differences in attitudes and the dynamic of the relationships between musicians and entertainers was dead on (Mikey's post on arrangers).

He also made a refrence to the need to define "success".

In our business that's a pretty heavy, sometimes involved concept. Ray Brown told me a few years before he passed on that he had made about as much the previous year as I had the last year in my corporate days. Here's a guy at the top of his game; world renown as the best in his field.

I was a moderately successful corporate director. There were thousands of people in similar jobs doing as well or better than I was, financially.

How do you define success as it relates to your involvement in music?

For our purposes here, lets not limit the paramaters to financial compensation.

Should be interesting...


Russ