Graham Haynes is an American jazz cornetist, and the son of the legendary jazz drummer Roy Haynes.

Mr. Haynes's lecture was interesting. He started by talking about himself: how he was shaped by drummers and by electronics, and how he balanced acoustic and electronic work in his studies and performances. He told us that electronics brought new colors into his life: like a painter, he had to choose between working only in black and white or with the full range of color.

He clearly loves art, painting and dance. He made some good points about how important dance is in music: every musician should be able to dance.

I got to play with him during the lecture, and the music we made was simple but, at the same time, rhythmically complex. He also showed us his conducting gestures and some work he had done on "weird" scales like the hexatonic and the double diminished. I had fun.

My favorite quote of the lecture: "You can practice all day, and that is easy as a student, but you have to perform, live, in front of people." That is exactly my situation here. I miss playing so much.

Mr. Haynes also recommended a couple of books: "The Avant-Garde in Exhibition," and "Complete Writings on Art" by Wassily Kandinsky.

Lessons learned:

• dance, dance, dance!
• music and jazz lead to art.
• simple can lead to complex.
• musicians need to play live.