If I were to start another band, it would be purely to feature percussion with the fun spirit of "Oye Como Va." Few things these days serve me as a performance muse, but Latin percussion is one of them. That cha-cha beat in particular, I could construct an entire set around it.

It may not take over the clubs, but I want to make people move, not just peer over their glasses frames from their static tables.

As with this song, the music I want to hear isn't Latin jazz, with its inscrutable virtuosity, nor something intently folksy traditional. It's a simplification and a modernization. It's maybe nothing at all.