Let’s be honest: jazz musicians are cool. Statistically speaking, cooler than you. Case in point: jazz musicians are far too cool to actually read this article, and the fact that you’re three sentences into it proves you’re not as cool as we are (a musician would have gotten as far as “Let’s be honest...” then stopped to smoke an e-cigarette).
Don’t take it personally. It’s taken us years to develop our cool. It’s what we do.
You know what we were doing while you were taking Math class? We were busy being cool. English class? You guessed it, cool. (Which is why our grammar ain’t so goodness, and we cant work out where our apostrophe’s go.)
I know what you’re thinking: “Professor, if you’re so cool, how come you're writing this article?”
Well, in a ‘coolness legal loophole,’ I'm dictating this to an assistant whilst on a surfboard skydiving onto a wave at the Rockaways. Whilst playing the sax. Case closed. I might be offended that you’d even question my validity, but to be honest I’m too cool to actually care.
But as cool as I am; I am, in equal measure, a nice guy. And it would be remiss of me to have this regular column and not at least try and help you increase your coolness factor. It’s never too late to start being cool.
So here are some of the Professor’s coolness tips to get you on the right track.
Firstly, before yo
