Happy new year!!! Hope youre all healthy and happy and stocked up on boredom. Im only just beginning to figure out where the hell I am lately. Its almost like I woke up after a 4 year dream and now Im 27, but I dont have as much to show for it as youd think. Career stuff, sure, but Im not even considering that right now. Im just trying to find that bloom as a person. Trying to live a normal life without emotionally relying on the fact that Im an artist, or that I can just get on the road and leave my problems behind. Im playing with the same rules as the rest of the world now, and I love it.
So Ill be taking some time off from touring, but not from playing and thinking about music. Im taking advantage of all the opportunity Ive earned in the last few years by playing on some other peoples albums. Just finished a track I wrote and recorded with Herbie Hancock for his upcoming CD, and Ill be on a couple of cuts on John Scofields next disc. Lots of other stuff, too, but Ill let you find out on your own. As for the fate of my next album, I wont take too long before giving you something new to listen to. I just know all too well that once you press the start button, the ride doesnt stop for 18 months.
I dont have that much more to report on. Just hanging out, deconstructing my playing so that I can put it together even better than before, and living life as a person. A person who happens to be a musician. I hope you have an amazing year, and that you discover so many new people, places and things. Nouns, I guess. Discover more nouns. I have to tell you, I can see the CONTINUUM of life lately. I can feel how the whole arc comes and goes in the blink of an eye. 27 turns into 35, 45, 55, 65, Geritol. Lately Ive been playing with numbers, how 1985 was 20 years ago, so if you copy and paste your life from 85 to now, youll be 47, if youre 27 today. Sometimes that seems long, sometimes it seems short. I dont know. I saw Garden State the other night, and it set me perfectly straight. Being lost is sexy. My life has been its most boring when I dont feel like Im looking for something. And Im looking for a whole hell of a lot right now. You should be, too.
Love, love, love, love, love, love... And thank you.
JM
So Ill be taking some time off from touring, but not from playing and thinking about music. Im taking advantage of all the opportunity Ive earned in the last few years by playing on some other peoples albums. Just finished a track I wrote and recorded with Herbie Hancock for his upcoming CD, and Ill be on a couple of cuts on John Scofields next disc. Lots of other stuff, too, but Ill let you find out on your own. As for the fate of my next album, I wont take too long before giving you something new to listen to. I just know all too well that once you press the start button, the ride doesnt stop for 18 months.
I dont have that much more to report on. Just hanging out, deconstructing my playing so that I can put it together even better than before, and living life as a person. A person who happens to be a musician. I hope you have an amazing year, and that you discover so many new people, places and things. Nouns, I guess. Discover more nouns. I have to tell you, I can see the CONTINUUM of life lately. I can feel how the whole arc comes and goes in the blink of an eye. 27 turns into 35, 45, 55, 65, Geritol. Lately Ive been playing with numbers, how 1985 was 20 years ago, so if you copy and paste your life from 85 to now, youll be 47, if youre 27 today. Sometimes that seems long, sometimes it seems short. I dont know. I saw Garden State the other night, and it set me perfectly straight. Being lost is sexy. My life has been its most boring when I dont feel like Im looking for something. And Im looking for a whole hell of a lot right now. You should be, too.
Love, love, love, love, love, love... And thank you.
JM
