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Second part of a series of videos my Electric Trio recorded Live in the Brooklyn last Fall.

Enjoy!

Triste has always been a favorite of mine. Lots of VW members have posted really nice versions of this tune and here's mine.

Enjoying a nice semester break from Berklee with more available time to shed. It's important for me to keep practicing and try to move forward, learn and improve. As a musician, I feel that if we stop evolving, growing and learning, we stagnate and even move backwards. There are a lot of things in my playing that I want to tweak and more fully develop. This clip shows a little of what I was working on the other day. The clip is comprised of four brief excerpts from a practice session playing Coltrane's Countdown. (My apology for the microphone cord being in the clip.

Here's the first etude of mine for Giant Steps. Lots of open, sus sounding 4th voicings. These work great for this tune. Enjoy!

On a semester break from Berklee and in the shed today working on Thelonious Monk's classic tune "Ask Me Now". Joe (Locke) had brought this tune with him when he visited a few weeks ago. We had played this with Joe on vibes and myself on piano. Joe was burning from beginning to end while I comped on piano. It's a great tune for the "four to the bar" left hand comping that I'm utilizing here in the clip. I was also working on trying to keep the left hand groove going while incorporating two hand runs (using alternate strokes and combination strokes). It's a work in progress.