Because everybody arrives in shape at training camp.
The early days of "free jazz" were a "fantastic time when everybody arrived in New York City: Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Cecil Taylor, Cherry.
The season would slog from winter into the prolonged nasty April, but one day, everybody arrived at the Coliseum for a May series with the sun shining in the west.
"Everybody arrived with their sleeping bags on Friday night," she says, "which was turmoil, and then they managed to extend the conference into the Oxford Union, an extraordinarily stiff environment that was meant to produce male orators who would become prime ministers.
Say in contact with each other until everybody arrives at the designated meeting place.
By quarter to four, everybody had arrived.
"Everybody who arrives in Phnom Penh aims to go to Siem Reap," said Eric Leung, who manages the Cambodian operations of a Hong Kong airline, Dragonair.
Almost everybody who arrives at age 50 more or less intact carries memories of an earlier stage of life in which a wilder, unformed self lurched and blundered through young adulthood before making a fateful decision to settle.
Once everybody has arrived, you can start!
"Good morning everybody!" she would say, arriving as the sun set over West 39th Street.
