experiences with working bands through the years that playing day after day with the same group gives the music a strength and ease of execution that doesn't happen otherwise. It's like a basketball team that plays every night and gets their stuff slick so the individuals and the team are performing (hooking-up) in an optimum way. " Speaking about rhythm sections who do not hook-up, Eliot says, "Many players don't really have a concept of hooking-up. It's more like 'well I'm going to do my thing, and you'll do your thing and hopefully it will work. A lot of the time it doesn't work in that very subtle way that marks the difference between effortless swing versus four hours of manual labor."
