I had made a couple of records in Europe. One as a leader, and one as a sideman before that. It was what it was. I started to work with Maria Schneider around that period and some other people, I started to get called to sub at the Vanguard in my mid-20s.
Some learned writers. . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram. . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.