Gearing up for a recording session with Zac on Saturday. We've been working a different angle these days. Not random improvisation. Not structured exploration of a tune. Something in between. The new focus is on melody. We played some spirituals -- those tunes were originally sung without any harmonic support & that's how we tried to play. A challenge for the two of us, who tend to use harmony as support and as a springboard for improvisation. Focus on melody leaves a lot of empty space in the music & forces us both to play the edge -- listening, producing sound... breathing the music. Playing that way left me feeling buzzed up in a way I'd never felt before.