That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz. ↗
I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time. ↗
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. ↗