Hello Friends, My new recording Fortune Telling (Adivinhação) is finally here. Read on for installment two of the long version in installments (the short version is in the liner notes below). Tim Armacost and I cooked up the idea of recording the tunes from our Seattle gigs in New York but after sleeping on the idea … Continue reading
Hello Friends, My new recording Fortune Telling (Adivinhação) is finally here. And some of you may be interested in the story so I’ll tell the long version in installments (the short version is in the liner notes below). Our old teacher and eminent trumpet player Bobby Bradford used to caution us in subtle ways not to … Continue reading
Hello Friends, My new recording Fortune Telling (Adivinhação) is finally here. There’s an interesting story about the journey but for now I’ll just post the short version…..actually the liner notes from the CD. I’ll be back soon with the full story including the trip out to Detroit to make the first attempt at recording the tunes … Continue reading
Hey folks, I stuck with clarinet last week and practiced some transcribed Chet Baker solos that sit really awkwardly across the break. Anyway, here’s what I came up with today. The video lapses and you can’t see it, but I was interrupted and had to stop to keep the kitten from attacking the mic (see … Continue reading
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