I have fought a good fight.

And we will all the pleasures prove / That hills and valleys, dales and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields

And the session included some very unmoblike moments: he broke down several times when asked about his separation from his family, providing a view into the tattered life of a man whose fall was as rapid as his rise.

These and other writers also consciously strive for jazz's full-bodied swingingness, its danciness, its range of allusion, its trickbag of quicksilver improvisational impulses.