This story and video by Paul Schaffer and Sammy Davis, Jr. seems deeply related to the OPen Space practice of music, improvization, showing up with your talent/passion, "letting it happen" within rhythm structures, using all your experience and knowing the power of collaboration. This video made me cry. What a life, what a gift, what a moment that happened only once just that way.
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He walked with a cane. <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001EqLpVXOZP4J2J9lxF--BmsaNsVDOpZopoSrydJtetnRKLDKlhyWfkjEIZpwIzzTk_1j6zitawAh3x_T2YIkboE6MyyyWOmVcSYxVue-HcOeUpVoswA1J2VC46kPCYUnJtyoY5OiqFopDW6BFk5O3_uZcH6NPbkkGWl26wBOzgFpdt5MVkDra-Vch2V4HBP-1gQgqMjbecIfTZh-Y-uJj7Hz0HFaBsxiP7r4OQzb2KYbxkZZuWlfGvXBpWTxWZDYO5V_NcZYY1WHQCFwNetWI3Qtd_eTPQCC_z9dYQ8EvIfuwapvqmYJ1M_5409eG9MN71PSh3XdmB5b9r4NJkRAhilvXt26M2gVg&c=9p8PAfqGR7HinW_c7R2V4eeQXJXWl2qPPW_bf_1g2gmdh6ErH8rX3w==&ch=R7SIDYFRJkfqccIwN2PfaG9uJ3sorSMqQn20Q4-OpC0e3rEdbF8a8g==> " 'We have an arrangement, Sam. You can rehearse it with the band.' " 'No need, baby. Gotta conserve my energy. I'm just gonna go to my room and shower.' " 'I wanna make it easy for you. So I'll just play you a tape of the arrangement on the boom box. That way you'll hear what we've done and tell me if it's okay.' " 'Man, I know the song.' " 'I know, Sam,' I said, 'but what if you don't like the chart?' " 'I'll like it, I'll like it.' " 'But what if the key's not right?' " 'Okay, if you insist.' "I slipped the cassette in the boom box and hit 'play.' To my ears the chart sounded great. Sammy closed his eyes and, in Sammy style, nodded his head up and down to the groove. He smiled. " 'It's swinging man,' he said 'but think of how much more fun we could have had if I hadn't heard this tape.' "His words still resonate in my ears; the notion still haunts me. Sammy swung that night but as he was performing I couldn't help thinking that his carefree feeling about time -- as opposed to my lifelong notion of the pressure of the time -- was coming from a higher spiritual plane. As a musician, I've always thought I rushed. I still think I rush. The great players never rush. It reminds me of that moment when I watched Ray Charles turn to his guitarist, just as the young guy was about to solo, and say 'Take your time son. Take your time.' 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