When doing a jam session, I usually start with a little prepared part – some fragment of a melody or chord progression that intrigued me enough to record it. Once I’ve played that part, I just keep on going as long as the Muse is with me, adding to the piece extemporaneously. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it all falls apart.

In this case, each new section fits right in and seems like it is part of a previously written complete song. Part of the trick is that when I play the prepared part and then bop out a good next section, I shove it right into memory and they repeat it again later in the song so it comes off as a pre-planned bridge or chorus.

In this recording, as I recall, only the first section was something I’d just written and all that follows are variations on the theme. In total, there are four sections, and after the last one I just repeat them all in the same order, and the result is something that sounds like a fully developed song that I had in mind going in.

Written and recorded in the early 1970s