I just wanted to give a quick shout-out to recommend the DVD of Gary and Makoto Ozone's Live at Montreux DVD from the 2002 performance. I was just websurfing last week at Amazon and discovered this, and I didn't even know that it was available. As much as I like the CD, the DVD adds that "third player" - the audience, and I think you'll enjoy this even more.

I've been messing around with this lick from Joel Frahm. I dug it because of the bebop and the 4ths and wanted to study it.

The side benefit from studying something like this is you can work on sticking ideas with vocabulary. I want to play this lick starting with my right hand.

But now I'm doing it with my left. I'm realize how much stick changes the 'feeling' of the lick when I play it.

For me there seems to be a difference with sticking's starting with each hand, based on what I did today.

Here's a tune list that was compiled by a fellow teacher at Univ of the Arts. Might be of use to some of you. Also see the 'Check this out link' for the Short Tunes List.

Hey I'm just getting started on Facebook and thought I'd mention it here... (I need friends and fans). Check it out. You can hear many of my recordings by clicking on the "My Band" tab. (Thanks Michael Pinto).

Another tune from "Ternaire", this time it's "All Blues" by Miles

We are all posting away! On one hand it's cool, it's what I was hoping for. On the other hand, this site is probably at 13 or 14 gigs now of data! Wow!!!

Well that's why my partner is a programmer and owns an ISP company!

Here's another track from my recent gig.

This is the quintessential recording of this tune. Maybe some of the younger guys haven't heard it??

Stop, sit and lesson.

If you didn't know this it makes the tune even heavier.

Billy Strayhorn wrote this tune at age 17 (if my research is correct, i.e. his biography). Listen to the words.

Is this one of the most heaviest songs or what? I get chills listening to it.

And then add Johnny Hartman and Coltrane and this is off the map.

Also from, "Ternaire", this crazy piece was written by the great french clarinettist, saxophonist and composer, Michel Portal. Check out the bass line by Jean-François Jenny Clark.

This is also from "Ternaire". It's a ballad by Daniel Humair, that I basically had to sight read at the gig. Check out the key.

This is the first tune from a live CD "Ternaire", with Daniel Humair, drums, Jean-François Jenny Clark, bass and yours truly on vibes. It was recorded live in Paris, 1992 in La Villa. The balance is not great but the music has it's merits, I think.