I wanted to take a moment to document this while it’s still fresh in my head. Earlier this month, I played what might have been my first proper large-scale jazz gig in years: a big band show with the Julian Chan Jazz Orchestra and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra at Dewan Filharmonik Petronas. It felt like stepping back into a life I once knew intimately. Long rehearsals, pages of charts, setups, fills, the satisfying punch of a shout chorus landing exactly right. We even