It’s 1980. Shoot the piano player.
More on Taylor’s Unit Structures, the new Rudy Van Gelder edition of Conquistador!, and Student Studies to come.
[Freakout bop pianist apocrypha in brief: Alone in a hotel room, somewhere in New York, journalist interviewing Thelonius Monk asks “Why don’t you play more like Bud?” Monk spazzes on piano in the room, room hushes and Monk turns to journalist and says “Now don’t tell anybody what you just saw me do.”]