Clifford Jordan

Saxophonist, Flutist, Composer

“My musical inspiration is to play some music and make people feel well. When they’re feeling ill at ease, I like to make them feel better, so they leave the club kind of charged up with some kind of energy. Or at least get ’em home—and in bed or something, you know [laughs]. And also, to put people together, and I don’t mind people talking when I play, but I try to play something that’s going to make them talk about something that’s sincere and truthful, and no BS. And the music charges me up also…”