Sei Miguel - The Original Drum (2023)

I don’t believe in the compositional vocation of jazz. And I don’t consider myself a true composer. In jazz, or at least in my jazz, composing implies and means – and this seems important enough – the mere study of form; an abstract, collective form, which is there, we may say, in spite of the performers rendition of it; they are the ones indeed at the heart of jazz, they are the heart of jazz. My pieces, more or less ambitious, are on the brink, the edge: between what I think I know and what I think I ignore. Visions. Tributes. And, of course, also a means to highlight the talent of musicians I am grateful to work with.