After an absence of many years, I’ve recently returned to playing clarinet. I now play in a concert band, and enjoy playing classical music. Tonight, my wife and I were jamming some blues numbers, she on piano and I on clarinet. When we finished improvising St. James Infirmary in B minor, she said, “You’re good. That’s your voice.” With her that was a natural observation, not a learned kind of thing to say. Made me feel good.