In 1990, I made the decision to end my time as a professional musician. Lots of reasons fed into the reasons why – ranging from not liking the repetitiveness of some of the work that paid me decent money, to realizing I hated touring (i.e being away from my wife) to most importantly – realizing that there were so many players that were just far better than me! It was a really tough decision – but it was a decision that evenly led me into my career as an academic. The great irony about the year I decided to go back to university was that I actually landed some interesting gigs – including a week at Ronnie Scotts promoting an album I wrote a few tracks for. In one of those tracks, the record company (via Steve White) managed to pursued the great late Bob Berg to record one of my tracks – a blues based on a ’12 tone scale’. It as actually a piece I had wrote several years ago when I was still at music college and my original idea was for the improvisation section to be based on the chords derived from the tone row. However, when Bob Berg got to the studio after a gig he had just finished with Mike Stern – he suggested just playing a blues – which is how it ended up. Anyway – here it is – 12 tone row, mixed with 12 bar blues and ‘noise’ music.