PRESS
August 04 2003
Published in: The NY Times by
BEN RATLIFF
“I had a girlfriend who was a composer,” John Hollenbeck deadpanned to a small audience at the Jazz Standard on Wednesday, standing in front of his drum kit, which sat at a right angle to the audience. “While we were going out, she wrote a piece called `Just Like Her.’ She was jealous of some chick, or something. The relationship didn’t end well.” He paused, and nobody knew where this was going.
“Later,” he continued, “I stole some pitches from her introduction to that piece. She had some B’s, some E flats, some G’s. I stole all of those, And I made them into my own tune called `Just Like Him,’ which is better, and bigger.”