Gustavo Agatiello: Hi, Jerry. Thanks for meeting up for this interview. I’ve been listening to you, for a long time at the Lilypad in Cambridge, where you play every Monday; through recordings, of course, and more recently, since the pandemic, through the weekly Wednesday YouTube livestream from Pete’s Basement Studio (Peter Kontrimas’ PBS). Listening to you week after week one thing that always strikes me is the fact that you are not cruising, or repeating yourself. I hear a constant evolution in your playing. New rhythmic, melodic and harmonic material pours out and it’s always so fresh and in the moment. I wonder how you can sustain it through the years? Jerry Bergonzi: Well, you have to do something with your mind, you know, and you have to focus, and I’ve put a lot of focus on music. Both …
