In every genre you can imagine, there's gonna be someone amazing there. Hunter says that even after spending most of his life in Berkeley, the popularity of the Bay Area has made it nearly impossible to live here. It's easier to get an apartment in Manhattan. Maybe the bandleader just wants to know if the mic is turned up enough. Maybe a few people clap.
Someone drops a five in the jar.
Then players smile and light into another song, and the jazz goes on. From the December 1997 issue of the Metropolitan.