No doubt Miles Davis would have been a skater had he been from this new generation. In fact, it would be easy to compare him to someone like Tommy Guererro or Lupe Fiasco, who have the birth of cool down, as well as skill-sets that mix skate and music.

Sure, Denmark has produced a number of good tennis stars, of the table variety or just the usual, very attractive blonde Scandanavian type. However, when it comes to wildly innovative music… Er, not so much. That’s why I was blown away today when I heard The Crooked Spoke sailing through the speakers…

Anyone who knows basketball and jazz can see the relationship between the two pursuits: a marriage of form and improvisation, of individualism with teamwork; a primacy of rhythm (it’s all about tempo); and a requirement that players respond to one another’s choices and to rapidly changing situations in real time. Just as Kareem Abdul-Jabar was famous for listening to artists like Sonny Rollins…