Some Day I'll smoke that cigar

in Bryant Park. It is one of the few places where you can smell the aroma of cigar smoking wistfully floating by you as you walk around the chess boards or look upon the lawn. That and Nat Sherman's on the corner so you know most of those cigars have just been purchased by their lucky guardian, no humidor for these stogies. I think perhaps when I get the chance to leave my current job and set off on some tour with my band, then I'll smoke a fine cigar to bid a fond adieu to my lunch time utopia. It is Firday once again, can't you tell by my euphoric tone, and that means all that stands in the way of me and freedom is two and half paltry hours. Though the weekend should be a fairly busy one, filled hopefully with rehearsing for our upcoming show, Saturday morning will be my refuge from the practicing and I will sit in the empty Starbucks on Steinway sipping my coffee and day dreaming while my eyes wander to and from the street outside. Perhaps I'll get a chance to chill with Blake more too, which would be a nice change of pace. There is something about friends you've known since middle school that allows you to cut the bs. No need to try to be cute in conversation or ask them how their life is progressing. No need for pleasentries or civlity, just relaxing drinking a beer watching the game, enough said. I just finished reading Miles, the autobiography of Miles Davis. It is a fabulous read and I recommend it to all those interested in music and jazz specifically. I love the attitude the guy had, although a lot of the things he might have done were questionable, he did everything with style and confidence that came from sticking to his own guns even if meant pissing everyone off. Now that type of character is rare these days, when everybody is so pc and cordial that you don't know how anybody really feels. The passion has gone out of conversation because it has become so sanitized. His exuberance for music, women and life where his hallmarks. I leave you with brief quote of his on the nature of Jazz and jazz musicains "you need more than that (great technical skills and technique) to play great jazz music, you need feelings and an understanding of life that you can only get from living, from experience"