I figure it's the same with any business. Give them what they want, and they will give you what you want.

Or, as Donna Summer sings in "Bad Girls", a song about -- how should I put it -- the ladies of the night.

Mister, do you want to spend some time,
I got what you want, you got what I need,
I'll be your baby if you spend it on me.

In this biz, I've known some of those "working girls" and I respect them. It's not an easy profession.

I get to play music, and live my life on my own terms. We are self-employed too.

If working 40 hours a week as a wage slave for some faceless corporation isn't selling your body, I don't know what is.

I guess I'm drifting off-topic. But then, any thread that goes on long enough drifts off-topic. That makes it like a conversation in a coffee shop.

Many musicians I have known have had a secret desire to play jazz or classical, but play pop music. The famous studio musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew" were jazz cats, but they recorded much of the pop music that is the soundtrack of our lives.

Others have classical backgrounds, you can see those influences in many pop songs.

Back when I was an AFofM union member, I remember reading an interview with a retired country music piano player. He said, "Don't let the suits know you are secretly into jazz, because they really believe in this kind of music."

I think having experience in other genres than your chosen one is a good thing.

And to add, what is Jazz anyway? Dixieland, Glenn Miller/Duke Ellington era swing, Cool School, Bop, Funk, Fusion and so on???

Anyway, I enjoyed the list and they were all fine players.

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