I have been playing Neil Diamond's songs for more than half of my life, and at some point I began to wonder what it would be like to do them in completely different ways. So I very slowly began to do just that. Over the last year it became an album called "Jazz Time." That's also the name of a song I wrote with Neil 30 years ago, and that's the only one that's left fairly untouched. The others are all over the place, with a lot of help from my talented and generous bandmates. SPOILER ALERT: "Holly Holy" imagines Arturo Velasco sitting in on an Ahmad Jamal record. "Kentucky Woman" could be an outtake from "Birth of the Cool," featuring John Fumo. "Headed for the Future" heads to the future by way of roughly 1961, with Don Markese and myself appearing in the roles of Paul Desmond and Les McCann, perhaps. It's not just the hits we revisited. Larry Klimas channels his inner Coltrane on "Home is a Wounded Heart," while we make "Dry Your Eyes" into something maybe a bit more mysterious. “Summerlove” is a cheap trip to Paris. Oh, and we did a modern-day version of “A Modern Day Version of Love.” If these notes don’t make sense to you, perhaps you will still recognize the songs.