01
All thirteen donuts, and what the last one cost me
Thirteen nights at the Garden. No repeats. I had a spreadsheet, two roommates who stopped speaking to me, and a manager who thought my grandmother died twice.
Cass Whitfield
02
Taping the 11/22/97 Hampton set with a mic stand made of a broom
The venue let tapers in but my stand had been confiscated in Winston-Salem two nights earlier for reasons that were, in fairness, entirely my fault.
Gordon Deitrich
03
Explaining a 20-minute jam to my mother, who is a jazz pianist
She played standards in hotel bars for twenty years. When I put on a 1998 Ghost she listened to eleven minutes with her eyes closed and then said, "Oh — they're comping for each other."
Theo Marlow